Milestone, Glasgow Road Opposite East End Of Arran Avenue, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Milestone.

Milestone, Glasgow Road Opposite East End Of Arran Avenue, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
high-pinnacle-azure
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
NS 433 394
Coordinates
55.62348, -4.48894
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This milestone, located on Glasgow Road opposite the east end of Arran Avenue in Kilmarnock, dates from the earlier 19th century. It is a three-sided structure with a canted top and a front arris. The milestone is made of tooled ashlar stone and features carved Baskerville lettering and numerals. On the north elevation, "Kilmarnock 1" is centrally engraved, while the south elevation displays "Glasgow 20," also centrally engraved.

Local climate

Milestone, Glasgow Road Opposite East End Of Arran Avenue, 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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