7 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. 2 related planning applications.

7 Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
grey-tracery-alder
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
Address
7 Howard Park Drive, Kilmarnock, KA1 1SF
OS grid reference
NS 423 371
Coordinates
55.60242, -4.50316
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Howard Park Drive in Kilmarnock is a pair of semi-detached, two-storey, two-bay villas built around 1904 in a hybrid Arts & Crafts and Glasgow style. The exterior features red quarry-faced Ballochmyle ashlar with polished dressings and bay windows. The ground floor has dressed sills and a battlemented parapet on the bay window.

On the principal elevation, No. 8 has a pilaster entrance arch with an impost moulding that supports a projecting hoodmould. The entrance features a slightly recessed rectangular door frame topped with a Diocletian fanlight. To the left, there is a two-storey, four-light canted bay window with a deep stone base course, transoms, and mullions, topped with swept faux battlements that break through the eaves. The second bay on the first floor has a rectangular window. A red ashlar wall to the left of the house has a timber door leading to the rear. No. 7 mirrors this design but is reversed, with access to the rear through a wall and door.

The south elevation is a blind elevation with a wallhead chimney, while the north elevation is also blind and features a wallhead chimney. The timber sash and case windows on No. 8 include two-pane windows, with the upper lights having leaded and stained glass. No. 7 has ten-pane and four-pane upper sashes on the ground floor, with single-pane lower sashes; the first floor has eight-pane and six-pane upper sashes, with single-pane lower sashes. The roof is hipped and piended with grey slate, featuring overhanging timber blocked eaves and a piended pyramid fronted roof over the bay windows. Terracotta ridge tiles with ornate ball and stalk finials adorn the apexes. There are replacement aluminium flashings and valleys, with a red coursed ashlar stack that has a projecting neck cope and four cans. The painted cast-iron rainwater goods include gutters attached to the blocked eaves and plain downpipes, with no hoppers.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

Local climate

7 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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