Institute, Institute Avenue, Catrine is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 June 1982. Library, community centre.

Institute, Institute Avenue, Catrine

WRENN ID
twelfth-loft-river
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 June 1982
Type
Library, community centre
OS grid reference
NS 528 257
Coordinates
55.50291, -4.33194
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a single storey public institute located on Institute Avenue in Catrine, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. It features snecked and stugged ashlar with polished dressings. A notable aspect is the semi-octagonal corner that includes an open columned logia, which supports a balustrade. The structure has a two-stage octagonal tower, with the second stage being corbelled and clocks placed on alternate faces. The roof is adorned with a crenellated parapet and small corbelled angle turrets.

To the south, there is a wing that consists of three unequal bays, highlighted by a prominent projecting canted window in the central gabled bay. The outer bay features a conical roofed drum at the angle. The east elevation includes single lights for the library, and all gables are crowstepped. The building is topped with a slate roof that has red ridge tiles.

Local climate

Institute, Institute Avenue, Catrine sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 77% 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 0.3°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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