Turbine House And Sluice, Sorn Castle is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1997. Turbine house.
Turbine House And Sluice, Sorn Castle
- WRENN ID
- young-wattle-river
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1997
- Type
- Turbine house
- OS grid reference
- NS 547 268
- Coordinates
- 55.51342, -4.30195
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Turbine House and Sluice at Sorn Castle, likely designed by Henry E Clifford around 1910, is a single-storey building with a basement, featuring a square plan situated on the bank of the river. It is constructed from red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a corbelled eaves course. The building includes a segmental-arched opening leading to an upstream culvert at the river and basement level. Each elevation has two windows at the upper level, some of which are blocked. There is a water outlet downstream through a banked terrace.
The windows have timber 9-pane glazing, and the roof is a pyramidal shape covered with timber shingles, featuring swept eaves.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Turbine House And Sluice, Sorn Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 77% 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 0.3°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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