Gamekeeper's Cottage, Kelburn Castle Estate, Fairlie is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 2016. Gamekeeper's house.

Gamekeeper's Cottage, Kelburn Castle Estate, Fairlie

WRENN ID
twisted-span-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 2016
Type
Gamekeeper's house
OS grid reference
NS 213 577
Coordinates
55.78006, -4.85058
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gamekeeper's Cottage, located on the Kelburn Castle Estate in Fairlie, dates from 1870. This single-storey and attic building is designed in the gothic style, featuring pointed-arch windows, timber barge-boarding, and tall shouldered wallhead stacks. It is situated at the northern end of the estate. The cottage has bracketed, over-hanging eaves and is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar margins. The doorway is framed by a basket-arch moulded surround and includes a timber porch supported on stone corbels. The north gable displays a carved quatrefoil plaque, dated 1870, which features a monogram. The roof is covered with grey slate and clay cans, and there are timber-framed, 4-pane glazed windows. The interior was not accessible for viewing in 2016.

Local climate

Gamekeeper's Cottage, Kelburn Castle Estate, Fairlie 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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