Stables, Knock Castle is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 August 1985.
Stables, Knock Castle
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-corbel-bittern
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1985
- OS grid reference
- NS 195 629
- Coordinates
- 55.82622, -4.88235
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These stables, likely designed by J T Rochead around 1852, form a U-shaped block with a screen wall to the west, enclosing a courtyard covered by a glass roof. The symmetrical west elevation is a single storey and built of coursed, stugged red ashlar with polished dressings. A central, two-canted-arched carriage entrance is flanked by two blind slits, with tripartite windows in the outer bays. The screen wall’s coping is stepped over the entrance, topped by a crenellated parapet with central diamond flues. All openings are hood-moulded.
Inside, the north and south walls feature four arcaded depressed arches, and the stalls remain complete with tiled walls. A low quadrant wall steps with the ground’s slope, and the circular corniced gatepiers have domed caps.
Local climate
Stables, Knock Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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