Turf Hotel, 52 West Main Street, Darvel is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.

Turf Hotel, 52 West Main Street, Darvel

WRENN ID
sombre-nave-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Hotel
Address
Turf Hotel, 52 West Main Street, Darvel, KA17 0AQ
OS grid reference
NS 561 374
Coordinates
55.60961, -4.2852
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Turf Hotel, located at 52 West Main Street in Darvel, is a two-storey building featuring yellow painted stonework. The façade includes four sash windows set within architraves, and the ground floor is rusticated. The building has flat modillioned eaves and a low parapet. The main entrance is highlighted by black painted fluted Doric columns and an entablature above.

Local climate

Turf Hotel, 52 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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