Rosaburn House, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1994. Museum.

Rosaburn House, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick

WRENN ID
sleeping-brick-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1994
Type
Museum
OS grid reference
NS 008 367
Coordinates
55.58354, -5.16126
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rosaburn House, located at the Arran Heritage Museum in Brodick, is an earlier to mid-19th century single-storey and attic rectangular-plan house with a slightly later addition. The exterior features coursed rubble with a harled front and gable, painted white, and a slate roof. The ground floor has 4-pane sash and case windows, with one 6-pane window at the rear, and painted margins on the front. The front also includes piended dormers fitted with modern 2-pane sash and case glazing, as well as Velux-type rooflights.

The front elevation showcases a panelled door located at the second bay from the right, which is sheltered by a shallow porch with a finial and gabled roof. There are windows to the left and right of the door, along with two dormers and a rooflight above. To the left, there is a window, dormer, and rooflight associated with the addition, while a modern window is present on the right return gable.

On the rear elevation, there are two windows to the right and a modern box dormer in the centre, accompanied by two rooflights.

Local climate

Rosaburn House, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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