Gardener's Cottage, Caprington Castle is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 April 1987. Cottage.

Gardener's Cottage, Caprington Castle

WRENN ID
turning-buttress-rowan
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 April 1987
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 409 359
Coordinates
55.59146, -4.52527
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gardener's Cottage at Caprington Castle is an early 19th century symmetrical single-storey cottage featuring three bays and gothick detailing. The cottage has recessed low flanking bays, with the door and bipartite windows all having columned jambs and pointed heads. The openings are shallowly recessed within square-headed panels, and the glazing consists of small panes in sash windows, along with a blind fanlight and window heads that feature intersecting tracery. The cottage is constructed of ashlar stone. A small-paned wall-head dormer was added in the late 19th century, but the end stacks are now missing as of 1987. The slate roof is intact, but the flanking wings are roofless.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage, Caprington Castle 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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