81-83 King Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Arts Club. 1 related planning application.
81-83 King Street, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- ragged-loft-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Arts Club
- Address
- 81-83 King Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1QB
- OS grid reference
- NS 427 377
- Coordinates
- 55.60828, -4.49726
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
81-83 King Street in Kilmarnock is an 1889 two-storey, three-bay Arts Club. The ground floor features modern shop fronts, while the first floor has a band course. The second floor showcases four Ionic pilasters, with two-thirds of their shafts fluted, and a central recessed canted bay. There is a string course at the second floor, an eaves course, projecting eaves, and a central triangular pediment.
The principal elevation includes a central recessed canted bay framed by strip pilasters, a lintel, and a broken pediment that surrounds a single window. Above the outer windows, there are carvings of art and musical instruments. The right and left bays each contain larger single windows, framed by half pilasters and lintels.
The south elevation adjoins another building, while the west (rear) elevation was not visible as of 2001. The ground floor has modern glazing, and the first floor features modern astragal glazing. The building has a slate roof. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
81-83 King Street, 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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