Machrie Farm, Arran is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1995. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Machrie Farm, Arran

WRENN ID
nether-gutter-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 August 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Machrie Farm, Arran, KA27 8EA
OS grid reference
NR 902 337
Coordinates
55.55236, -5.32698
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Machrie Farm is a mid 19th century farmhouse with late 19th century baronial embellishments. It is a two-storey, three-bay, L-plan building with a single-storey former service wing extending to the rear. The structure is built of red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The windows are margined with 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, and the building has margined angles with small corbelled flat-topped bartizans at the top, crowstepped gables, and coped ashlar stacks.

The front elevation includes a crowstepped gable porch with a wide pointed window, a door on the left return, and a window on the right. There are additional windows on the main elevation, with three windows on the first floor.

On the right return elevation, there is a gable to the left with a ground floor window, and the wing to the right has three windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. There is also a further single-storey wing in two sections at the far right with various windows.

The left return elevation features a gable to the right with windows on both the ground and first floors. There is a window and a French window on the ground floor, along with two windows on the first floor at a recessed wing to the left, which includes a conically-roofed integral stair tower at the re-entrant angle. Additionally, there is a two-bay single-storey wing at the far left and a four-bay single-storey wing to the outer left, along with a modern lean-to conservatory.

The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Machrie Farm, Arran sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 98% 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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