Reading Room, 26 Sturrock Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Hall. 1 related planning application.
Reading Room, 26 Sturrock Street, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- sharp-belfry-rain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Reading Room, 26 Sturrock Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 3AH
- OS grid reference
- NS 429 377
- Coordinates
- 55.60827, -4.49521
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Reading Room at 26 Sturrock Street in Kilmarnock was built around 1885. It is a single-storey, classical rectangular hall featuring lower recessed entrance bays. The main front is made of channelled ashlar, which is now painted, while the wings are constructed from coursed stone with brick and stone on the sides and rear. There is a base and eaves course.
On the west elevation, the central feature is a keystoned Venetian window set in a square recess, with three panels below and panelled spandrels. Four stone steps lead up to a timber panelled entrance door located in front of the recessed flanking wings.
The north elevation includes a blind window with a projecting cill at the centre of the lower wing, which adjoins the side of the main structure at the rear. The south elevation is not visible as of 2001. The east elevation also features a blind window with a projecting cill at the centre of the lower wing, adjacent to the rear side of the main structure.
The building has a plate glass Venetian window and two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate, featuring zinc flashing, and there are painted cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the space has been refurbished for office use, but some original details such as cornicing and skirting boards remain.
Local climate
Reading Room, 26 Sturrock 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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