Balgray Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980. Cottage.
Balgray Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-tracery-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 373 524
- Coordinates
- 55.73778, -4.59266
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balgray Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built in 1767, as indicated by a dated skewputt. The cottage has undergone out-of-character alterations around 1980. It features straight skews and bold, scrolled skewputts, along with oversized continuous box dormers on both the front and rear, and enlarged window openings.
To the left, there is a single-storey wing that has been modified with enlarged and later openings, a blocked central door, and a later doorway on the gable, which has a triangular doocot above it. The exterior is constructed of random sandstone rubble with dressed margins and a cavetto moulded eaves course.
On the northwest (rear) elevation, there are additional lean-tos and enlarged openings. The original timber sash and case 6 and 8-pane windows have been replaced with UPVC glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are harled end stacks with circular clay cans.
The interior was not seen in 2003, but it appears that nothing original remains.
Local climate
Balgray Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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