Elm Cottage, 17 Glenginnet Road, Barr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 September 1978.
Elm Cottage, 17 Glenginnet Road, Barr
- WRENN ID
- vast-chimney-rain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 September 1978
- OS grid reference
- NX 277 942
- Coordinates
- 55.21238, -4.70963
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elm Cottage, along with Woodbine Cottage, is part of a row of four originally separate limewashed cottages located on Glenginnet Road, Barr. The cottages date back to the 18th century and feature a single storey, with external walls finished in limewash and a roof covered in slate.
Local climate
Elm Cottage, 17 Glenginnet Road, Barr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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