Museum Building, Kelburn Castle, Fairlie is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 2016. Museum.
Museum Building, Kelburn Castle, Fairlie
- WRENN ID
- odd-glass-lichen
- 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
- Museum
- OS grid reference
- NS 217 566
- Coordinates
- 55.76986, -4.84386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Museum Building at Kelburn Castle, constructed between 1892 and 1908, is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan made of timber and corrugated iron. It is situated beside the Kel Burn, to the south of Kelburn Castle.
The building features a gabled porch in the central bay, timber barge-board eaves, and a brick base. There are brick stacks at each end topped with clay cans, and decorative cast iron brattishing adorns the roof ridge and porch. The windows are timber-framed with four-pane glazing.
Inside, as observed in 2016, the walls are timber boarded, and the ceiling is an A-frame design with timber panelling. Each gable end has elaborately carved timber fireplace surrounds.
It should be noted that a shelter addition at the rear is excluded from the listing under Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
Local climate
Museum Building, Kelburn Castle, 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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