Bourock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Bourock
- WRENN ID
- swift-ember-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bourock, KA3 4DS
- OS grid reference
- NS 408 513
- Coordinates
- 55.72889, -4.53566
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bourock is a farmhouse dating from around 1825, likely incorporating earlier elements, and was remodeled around 1890. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with single-storey wings on the east and west sides, which extend back as byres and create a courtyard to the north. The building features harled random rubble, with cement render on the front, and droved ashlar quoin strips and window margins.
The house has a half-glazed timber panelled inner door located in a central barge-boarded glazed porch on the south (front) side. There are bipartite windows flanking the door at ground level, and regular window arrangement on the first floor. The wings on the left and right sides show irregular fenestration; the west wing has a shouldered wallhead stack and a non-traditional door on the east return, while the east wing is unfenestrated and serves as a byre or former threshing barn. The north (rear) side also has irregular fenestration.
Most windows are timber sash and case with predominantly 12-pane lying-pane glazing, though some have 4-pane glazing. The building features ashlar-coped skews and coped stacks with yellow clay cans, all topped with a graded grey slate roof.
Access to the interior was not obtained.
The east range is constructed of random rubble with long and short droved sandstone quoins and has two timber-boarded doors on the west (courtyard) elevation, along with ashlar-coped skews and a graded grey slate roof.
The west range includes an asbestos-roofed byre extending from the west wing, gabled to the north. There is a shorter gabled byre adjoining to the west, with its west wall rebuilt in brick and a simple three-hole dovecot on the north gable. This section also has a graded grey slate roof. Additionally, there is a small outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof, possibly a former stable, adjoining the asbestos-roofed byre at right angles to the east, partially enclosing the courtyard, and featuring irregular fenestration.
Local climate
Bourock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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