Including Gates And Gatepiers, Cemetery House And Offices, Dalry Road is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 September 2009. Cemetery lodge.

Including Gates And Gatepiers, Cemetery House And Offices, Dalry Road

WRENN ID
knotted-lancet-willow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 September 2009
Type
Cemetery lodge
OS grid reference
NS 413 460
Coordinates
55.68198, -4.52512
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This property, built by J & J Armour of Irvine in 1907, is a single-storey, asymmetrical Scots Baronial cemetery lodge and waiting room. It features a gabled and crowstepped design with a distinctive entrance porch that rises above the wallhead. The exterior is finished in roughcast cement with smooth margins and includes canted bay windows. There is a later flat-roofed extension to the southwest.

The entrance porch has a tall, corbelled parapet set in a re-entrant angle to the northeast. It bears a carved shield with the date 1907 above and a round oculus window to the left. The waiting room extension to the southwest is also single-storey and has a slatted timber bench around two walls. On the southwest exterior wall, there is a flat, round-arched cast-iron drinking fountain with a semicircular basin and an attached drinking vessel.

The property has predominantly replacement non-traditional windows and doors, with grey slates on the roof, gablehead and ridge stacks, and beak skewputts. The interior, as seen in 2008, retains a largely original room plan with some cornicing.

To the east of the house, there is an imposing set of red sandstone carriage gatepiers topped with ball finials, along with flanking pedestrian gatepiers and convex quadrants that have additional gatepiers. The base courses and highly decorative capitals feature shields. The decorative iron gates display curvilinear patterns, and there are iron railings along the low quadrant walls and a tall boundary wall to the street, topped with red saddleback coping.

Local climate

Including Gates And Gatepiers, Cemetery House And Offices, Dalry Road 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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