Tolbooth, Main Street, Kilmaurs is a Grade A listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Court room, tower. 3 related planning applications.
Tolbooth, Main Street, Kilmaurs
- WRENN ID
- tangled-shingle-bramble
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Court room, tower
- Address
- Tolbooth, Main Street, Kilmaurs, KA3 2RQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 410 412
- Coordinates
- 55.63837, -4.52697
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tolbooth on Main Street in Kilmaurs is a notable building with a Grade A listing. It is accessed by a flight of 12 steps that feature a parapet. The principal courtroom is located on the first floor. The building includes a tower that has four stages, topped with a spire and finial. A clock on the building is dated 1866, and jougs are attached to the wall.
Local climate
Tolbooth, Main Street, Kilmaurs 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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