Old Men's Cabin, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Pavilion.

Old Men's Cabin, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
forgotten-postern-vale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
Type
Pavilion
OS grid reference
NS 424 373
Coordinates
55.60409, -4.50223
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Men's Cabin, located in Howard Park, Kilmarnock, is a single-storey square pavilion built by Andrew Calderwood in the early 20th century, with later additions. The structure features a deep red brick base course and a half-timbered, harled, and painted upper section, supported by iron columns with timber brackets.

On the principal elevation (east), the half-timbered facade includes a central door surrounded by an in-filled brick door surround, with a recessed wing to the left featuring a central door and a recessed blind wing to the right. An open veranda spans the length of this elevation.

The south elevation has a blind advance central bay, a recessed bay to the left with a central door, and an original recessed blind elevation to the right that also has an open veranda with a brick in-filled bay.

The rear elevation (west) features a single-storey projecting blind wall at the center, with a recessed blind side wing to the left and a recessed side wing to the right that includes a door.

On the north elevation, there is an advanced bay at the center with a centrally placed door, a recessed bay to the right with a door, and an original recessed blind elevation to the left that has an open veranda.

The building has no original glazing, as it is now in-filled with brick. There are later timber doors leading to the rear additions. The roof is piended with grey slate, featuring overhanging splayed eaves, terracotta ridge tiles with arched scrolled finials, and painted cast-iron rainwater goods with gutters attached to the barge boarding. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2001.

Local climate

Old Men's Cabin, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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