26 Portland Road, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Villa.
26 Portland Road, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- waning-truss-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 424 377
- Coordinates
- 55.60778, -4.50222
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Portland Road in Kilmarnock is a detached, two-storey, three-bay classical villa built around 1855. The building features coursed ashlar, harled, and painted surfaces, with a heavy projecting architraved eaves course and a projecting base course. The windows have moulded margins, and the roof is skew gabled with plain skews and squared putts.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a central door with a pilastered surround that supports a squared pediment with a projecting cope. Flanking the door are windows with architraved margins, and the first floor has three regularly placed bays. The moulded eaves course projects to the east and west beyond the line of the building.
The east elevation features an architraved door surround on the extreme right, which is shared with No. 24 and conceals a service passageway. The rest of this elevation is blind and is broken at the attic level by a gutter.
The south (rear) elevation is not visible as of 2001. The west elevation has a later wall on the extreme left of the ground floor that provides vehicular access to the rear of the property, with the rest of the elevation being blind.
The front elevation has replacement two-pane PVCu double glazed windows. The roof is piended with grey slate, featuring lead ridging and flashings. There is a brick gablehead stack on the east side with three tall ornate cans, while the stack on the west side is missing.
Inside, some original timber features remain, such as skirting boards and doors. The building is currently used as business premises.
Local climate
26 Portland Road, 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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