Kilmarnock Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Railway viaduct. 2 related planning applications.
Kilmarnock Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- muffled-finial-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NS 429 382
- Coordinates
- 55.61197, -4.4957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilmarnock Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1848, featuring 23 arches. It is constructed from coursed squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings and a parapet.
On the south and north elevations, the 23 segmental arches rise from piers that have moulded impost courses. The span is wider at Portland Street, where there are raised rusticated flanking piers and polished quoins. The arches to the west of Portland Street decrease in span and have shallow pointed heads. To the east, near the weir, there is a pair of piers on heavy rusticated cutwaters located in the Kilmarnock Water, with the piers immediately flanking inset into the river bank. There is a manmade soil embankment to the east, which runs parallel with Kay Park and London Road. This embankment features an arched coursed sandstone ashlar wall at the base, supported by sloped buttresses and topped with squared copes.
Local climate
Kilmarnock Viaduct 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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