Horse Engine House, Holmes House is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 2003. Horse-engine house.
Horse Engine House, Holmes House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-floor-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- Horse-engine house
- OS grid reference
- NS 477 365
- Coordinates
- 55.59848, -4.41854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Horse Engine House at Holmes House dates from around 1830 and is a circular structure located next to a former threshing barn, which has been truncated. It features a conical roof covered in grey slate, topped with a lead finial. As of 2003, the building is in poor condition. The exterior includes a large opening for horses and two smaller window openings, constructed from pink sandstone rubble with dressed margins.
Inside, the building is currently used as a wood store. It has radiating timber roof supports and a central timber pole reaching to the apex, with some machinery still remaining.
Local climate
Horse Engine House, Holmes House 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 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 0.2°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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