Town Hall And Library, 10-12 West Main Street, Darvel is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1992. Town hall. 4 related planning applications.
Town Hall And Library, 10-12 West Main Street, Darvel
- WRENN ID
- sharp-garret-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1992
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall And Library, 10-12 West Main Street, Darvel, KA17 0AE
- OS grid reference
- NS 563 375
- Coordinates
- 55.60994, -4.28231
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Town Hall and Library, located at 10-12 West Main Street in Darvel, is a building from the late 19th to early 20th century. It is two stories high and features seven bays made of red sandstone. The ground floor has a symmetrical design with round-headed entrances located in the center and at the end bays, all adorned with simple moulded heads. The remaining bays contain single windows that have segment heads and keystones.
There is a base course, a cill course, and a cornice that separates the ground floor from the first floor. The bays are divided by paired pilasters that rest on deep panelled bases. The balcony, which appears to have been originally balustraded, now has its space for balusters filled in and rendered with cement. The first floor is tall and features single transomed windows positioned high in the end bays.
The central five bays all have tripartite windows with mullions and double transoms, separated by paired pilasters. A cill course runs below the central windows and pilasters, except where it is interrupted by the balcony. The building has a plain frieze that slightly advances over the central bays, topped with a heavy cornice. Above the central five bays, there is a balustrade with dies separating the bays. The front part of the roof is piended, covering only the central bays, and is slated with a central iron ventilator.
Local climate
Town Hall And Library, 10-12 West Main Street, Darvel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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