Auchenkyle Lodge, Southwood Road, Troon is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2014. 3 related planning applications.

Auchenkyle Lodge, Southwood Road, Troon

WRENN ID
scattered-remnant-vermeil
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 2014
OS grid reference
NS 340 292
Coordinates
55.52871, -4.63065
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Auchenkyle House is a large, two-storey and attic Queen Anne style house, built in 1905-7 by Alexander David Hislop and John Campbell. It is set within private grounds and has a distinctive L-plan layout. The house is constructed of red brick with brick quoins, and features steeply sloping, bell-cast slate roofs and a deep modillioned cornice. Segmental-arched windows are present on the ground floor. A prominent north-facing entrance bay is accentuated by a stone doorpiece with a segmental-arch canopy and a ball finial. The garden elevation to the southwest includes an advanced canted bay and a piended roofed bay. Small, piended-roof dormers, and two later conservatory additions are also visible.

The interior, inspected in 2014, displays a high-quality decorative scheme, including timber panelling in the entrance hall, open-well staircase, and corridors. The staircase is characterized by wine glass balusters and a carved handrail. Fine decorative plasterwork is particularly notable in the shallow-vaulted ground floor corridor and public rooms, with motifs of fruit and flowers. Several rooms feature decorative, carved timber fire surrounds. The windows are primarily plate-glass timber sash and case, with a pair of cross-pane lead light windows in the stairwell, and a small circular window on the north elevation. The slates are grey.

A lodge, also designed by Alexander David Hislop in 1905-7, stands on Southwood Road. This is a single-storey and attic, three-bay, square-plan, symmetrical Queen Anne style building with steeply sloping bell-cast roofs, a central chimney stack, and flat-roofed dormers. It is constructed of red brick with a stone base course and deep, overhanging eaves. Raised cills are present on the segmental-arched windows. A later extension with a piend roof has been added to the rear. The interior, viewed in 2014, retains its original room layout, consisting of several smaller rooms and a straight staircase to the upper floor. Windows are mostly 6-over-9-pane timber sash and case on the ground floor, with smaller sash and case windows in the attic storey.

Local climate

Auchenkyle Lodge, Southwood Road, Troon 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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