Town Hall, Glaisnock Street, Cumnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1977. Town hall. 4 related planning applications.
Town Hall, Glaisnock Street, Cumnock
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-column-acorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1977
- Type
- Town hall
- OS grid reference
- NS 569 199
- Coordinates
- 55.45223, -4.26383
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Town Hall on Glaisnock Street in Cumnock was built by R Ingram from 1883 to 1884. This two-storey building features a Free Renaissance style and has a three-bay front made of red ashlar stone. The ground floor is channelled and showcases a Roman Doric order with coupled columns at the entrance, flanked by tripartite windows in the outer bays that have banded rock-faced rustication. On the first floor, there are three Roman Doric Venetian windows with head keyblocks, and the central bay is framed by coupled Corinthian columns. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet and has a French domed roof over the central bay.
Local climate
Town Hall, Glaisnock Street, Cumnock 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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