4 Mair's Road, Darvel is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1992. Villa. 1 related planning application.

4 Mair's Road, Darvel

WRENN ID
spare-ember-honey
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1992
Type
Villa
Address
4 Mair's Road, Darvel, KA17 0LA
OS grid reference
NS 562 372
Coordinates
55.60768, -4.28346
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Mair's Road in Darvel is a detached Scots Vernacular villa built in the late 19th century to early 20th century. It is one storey with an attic and constructed in rock-faced red sandstone, featuring polished ashlar dressings and an L-shaped plan. The villa has three bays, with the left bay being a short stroke of the L. The crow-stepped gable includes a single-storey coated bay window, with single windows on the sides and a tripartite window at the front that is both mullioned and transomed.

A dentilled corbel course runs beneath a crenellated parapet. The first-floor window is also tripartite, mullioned and transomed, with a hoodmould raised above the central window to accommodate a blank armorial panel. There is a lean-to porch in the re-entrant section, featuring a doorway to the right and a dwarf wall with a Roman-Doric column to the left. A door is located in the side of the end bay, with a glazed wooden screen to the right. The lean-to has a crow-stepped skew, and above the porch is a round-headed dormer with a transom and a fan in the tympanum, along with ogee skewputts.

The right bay has a bipartite mullioned and transomed window at the ground level and a dormer similar to that above the porch. The villa features a deep battered base course, a corbel course above the ground-floor windows, and a moulded eaves band. The east gable has a crow-stepped design with a single-storey canted bay on the left, which mirrors the front but has a bipartite window in the centre and another bipartite window above. The hoodmould is raised to an arch at the centre, with a single transomed window to the right of the bay at ground level. A chimney stack on the right of the gable projects slightly and tapers.

The west gable features a gable head chimney stack and a single tripartite mullioned and transomed window at ground level, with no base course or corbel course on this side. The windows are 2-pane sash and case, and the roof is covered with slate and adorned with terra-cotta ridge tiles, with a ridge chimney stack on the transverse wall. The villa retains its original cast-iron rainwater hoppers.

Local climate

4 Mair's Road, 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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