Garden 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. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Garden Cottage, Kelburn Castle Estate, Fairlie
- WRENN ID
- late-turret-snow
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Kelburn Castle Estate, Fairlie, KA29 0BE
- OS grid reference
- NS 215 569
- Coordinates
- 55.77325, -4.8467
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garden Cottage, located on the Kelburn Castle Estate in Fairlie, dates back to 1870. This single-storey and attic building was originally a gardener's cottage and is designed in a simple rustic gothic style. It features pointed-arch windows, pierced timber barge-boarding, and tall shouldered wallhead stacks. The cottage is situated to the north of the former kitchen garden at the estate and has bracketed, overhanging eaves.
Constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar margins, the building includes a basket-arch moulded surround with a timber porch supported on stone corbels. The north gable displays a carved quatrefoil plaque, dated 1870, featuring a monogram. There is a timber and glazed single-pitched porch addition on the south elevation and a harled addition on the northwest elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features clay cans. The windows are timber-framed with four panes of glazing.
The interior, partially observed in 2016, includes a curved staircase with metal bannisters and a scrolled timber handrail.
Local climate
Garden 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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