Statue House, Burns Monument, Alloway, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Lodge.

Statue House, Burns Monument, Alloway, Ayr

WRENN ID
nether-gargoyle-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NS 332 179
Coordinates
55.42662, -4.63652
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Statue House, located at the Burns Monument in Alloway, Ayr, was built in 1830 and is a single-storey lodge with an octagonal plan. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a base course and timber bracketed eaves.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a prominent central porch with a bargeboard and a recessed two-leaf timber door. The other elevations do not have any openings. The roof is octagonal and pyramidal, covered with slate and adorned with lead ridges, finials, and rooflights.

Inside, the lodge contains statues of Nanse Tunnock, Tam O'Shanter, and Souter Johnnie, all carved from local stone by James Thom. The interior also features a plain cornice moulding along the ceiling.

Local climate

Statue House, Burns Monument, Alloway, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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