Kennox is a Grade A listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House. 6 related planning applications.
Kennox
- WRENN ID
- old-bailey-ash
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kennox, KA3 3EF
- OS grid reference
- NS 384 449
- Coordinates
- 55.67106, -4.56999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kennox is a predominantly mid 18th century house with significant early 19th century additions and alterations. It is a symmetrical, 2-storey and attic, 3-bay classical structure, featuring an earlier, lower, 2-storey and attic wing at the rear, creating a T-plan layout. The exterior is finished in cream-painted rubble with raised ashlar margins and quoins on the wing. It has a raised basement, a band course, an eaves course, and a cornice, along with a pair of piended dormers.
The principal elevation faces south and includes a central double fore stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade leading to a pedimented doorpiece with Corinthian pilasters. This doorpiece features 2-leaf, 6-panel timber doors with a segmental glazing pattern and a semi-circular fanlight above, as well as a 2-leaf, metal diamond-pane internal door. A central Venetian window is located on the first floor.
To the rear, the north elevation shows a symmetrical 6-bay house with an advanced 2-bay gabled central section and a pair of piended roofed dormers. This section is single-storey to the north and includes a later glass cupola with the date inscribed as 1762 on the skewputt.
The windows throughout are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. Gablehead stacks and raised skews are also present.
Inside, the original room plan in the main house is largely intact, although other areas have been significantly modified. Some decorative plasterwork and 4-panelled timber doors can still be seen.
The property features a pair of square-plan painted stone gatepiers with a base course, cornices, and graded capstones, along with ornamental iron gates. Flanking the gates are symmetrical low rubble walls with metal railings and decorative pedestrian gates that feature fretwork and key patterns topped with iron ogee designs. There is evidence of possible former gatehouses remaining to the east and west.
The boundary walls to the south are tall and coped, with sections flanking the gates that include blind windows and ashlar margins.
Local climate
Kennox sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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