Rectory, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Dundonald Road, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Manse. 4 related planning applications.
Rectory, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Dundonald Road, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- narrow-hall-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NS 425 377
- Coordinates
- 55.60738, -4.50046
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 1859 rectory, designed by James Ingram, originally serving Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The building is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular manse with a single-storey, L-shaped extension to the south. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. A projecting base course leads to sloped ground floor sills.
The east (principal) elevation features a central pointed arch doorway, topped with a hoodmould that has block label stops, and a window above the doorway on the first floor. An advanced gable is on the left, with a tripartite window on the ground floor and a single window above. A blind trefoil is at the gablehead, topped with a wrought-iron wallhead cross finial. A recessed bay to the right of the door has a single light on both the ground and first floors, and a round window in the gable. A single-storey extension to the ground floor left features two regularly spaced bipartite windows. A single-storey link connects the rectory to the church to the right, with an arched light, a buttress, and a triple light window.
The south elevation has a single-storey gabled wing to the right with a window, paired doors and a window to the return, and a lean-to concealing the ground floor elevation; the blind gable of the main house is visible on the first floor.
The west (rear) elevation is two storeys high with two bays; it has an advanced gable to the left with a bipartite window on the ground floor, a centrally placed window on the first floor, and an arrowslit to the gablehead. A bipartite window on the ground floor right is paired with a centrally placed single window on the first floor. A single-storey lean-to is on the right return, featuring a single window, followed by a further window and a door on the return.
The north elevation has an adjoining single-storey corridor, visible from the east elevation, and a blind gable end at first floor level.
The windows on the principal elevation are timber sash and case windows with 2, 3, 6 or 9 panes. Rear windows are timber combination windows with 4 and 6 panes, with a single fixed timber pane window to the rear gablehead. The roof is piended grey slate, featuring two bands of decorative fish-scale slates to the principal elevation and single-storey additions. Buff painted cast-iron rainwater goods, with partially concealed gutters, run high under the eaves. Large stepped stone gablehead stacks rise from the roof, each with five plain cans.
The interior retains many original features, including arched doorframes, large rooms, and a timber staircase. The timber entrance door features arched glazing, leading to an inner porch with a multi-paned timber door.
The boundary is marked by a low, coursed rubble wall topped with smooth, semi-circular copes. A pair of low, square gatepiers with pyramidal caps mark the pedestrian entrance, with later wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Rectory, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Dundonald Road, 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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