Howard Park House, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. House. 1 related planning application.

Howard Park House, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 August 2002
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 424 373
Coordinates
55.60378, -4.50275
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Howard Park House is an early 20th-century Park Keeper's dwelling in Kilmarnock, built by Andrew McGregor. This single-storey, L-plan house features a simplified Arts and Crafts style. It is constructed of red brick with half-timbering on the gables and has heavy plain painted bargeboards.

The south elevation has a later railed ramp leading to a door in a canted three-sided porch. To the left of the door is a small squared window, and to the right is a half-timbered gable end. This side also features a three-light canted bay window that supports a cyma reversa bracketed load-bearing beam, with a semi-harled and painted half-timbered gable above, topped with heavy plain bargeboards.

On the east elevation, there is a window with a security shutter to the left, and a single-storey extension in the center that includes a central window and paired timber gates at a right angle to the left.

The north elevation has later brick additions that are hidden behind high hedges. The west elevation shows regular fenestration to the left and a half-timbered gable end to the right, similar to the south elevation, with a three-light canted bay window and a semi-harled and painted half-timbered gable above.

The original glazing plan is concealed behind modern metal security blinds housed in metal boxes, and the entrance door has been similarly treated. The roof is piended with red tiles and matching terracotta ridge tiles, featuring overhanging half-timbered piended gables with painted harled sections. The rainwater goods have been replaced, and there is a tall square red brick moulded chimney stack with a projecting neck cope and a single can.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

Local climate

Howard Park House, Howard Park, Howard Park Drive, 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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