Manse, Main Street, Dunlop is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Manse, Main Street, Dunlop
- WRENN ID
- silent-newel-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manse, Main Street, Dunlop, KA3 4AG
- OS grid reference
- NS 406 494
- Coordinates
- 55.71178, -4.53805
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a two-storey and attic, four-bay gabled house dating to 1781, with subsequent additions and alterations in 1814, around 1837, 1884, the 20th century, and the late 20th century. It is L-shaped, formed by the original house and a later wing to the rear. The house is built with painted roughcast render, accentuated by raised, painted sandstone ashlar dressings. Features include a base course, eaves course, quoin strips, and raised window margins.
The south-facing, principal elevation has a half-glazed timber boarded door leading to a Victorian porch with a half-piended roof and cast-iron brattishing. The windows are regularly placed; late 20th-century dormers light the attic and a conservatory has been added to the left. The west elevation shows a four-window gable and a later single-storey and attic wing to the left. The north-facing rear elevation has an irregular fenestration pattern, with a tall staircase window centrally positioned; piend-roofed dormers are present in the attic. A later gabled wing projects to the right with a 20th-century timber-boarded back door in a north-facing porch and an irregular fenestration pattern to its return.
The majority of the windows are timber sash and case with four panes of glass, though some at the rear have twelve panes. Corniced gablehead stacks topped with decorative clay cans are present, along with ashlar-coped skews, a graded grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior includes a tiled porch and a half-glazed timber panelled inner door with decorative frosted glass and sidelights. A curved staircase with a timber banister allows access to the upper floors. The drawing room includes cupboards forming a bowed end, decorative cornicing, a picture rail, and a fireplace with a black marble surround (now painted). Working shutters are in some rooms, complemented by cornicing to the principal rooms. Interior doors are timber panelled throughout.
A former stable and coach house is a single-storey, three-bay roughcast outbuilding located to the north-east of the main house. It features timber-boarded doors, a vehicle entrance in the gabled bay, a ridge stack, skylights, ashlar-coped skews, and a graded grey slate roof.
A boundary wall constructed of random rubble with ashlar coping, along with four octagonal sandstone ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps, form the vehicle entrance and flanking pedestrian gates. Decorative iron gates complete the boundary treatment.
Local climate
Manse, Main Street, Dunlop sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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