Salt Pan Houses, St Nicholas Golf Course, Prestwick is a Grade A listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 January 1989. Salt works. 1 related planning application.
Salt Pan Houses, St Nicholas Golf Course, Prestwick
- WRENN ID
- stony-shingle-hyssop
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1989
- Type
- Salt works
- OS grid reference
- NS 343 250
- Coordinates
- 55.49065, -4.62333
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Salt Pan Houses at St Nicholas Golf Course in Prestwick were built around 1760 for the salt boiling industry, specifically as part of the Maryburgh Salt Works. These structures likely served as salt pans with housing above. The buildings consist of two parallel blocks that are linked by a later wall, which has been raised and was originally open at the center. The overall arrangement is broadly symmetrical. Each block is two stories tall, has a rectangular plan, and features gabled roofs with end stacks. They are constructed from rubble with squared dressings, and the southern block is partially harled. Each block includes a wide opening in the west gable at a low level, with a timber lintel on the south side and a concrete lintel on the north. Additionally, there are forestairs and slate roofs, with deep skews and moulded skewputts suggesting that the original roof covering may have been pantiles or thatch.
Local climate
Salt Pan Houses, St Nicholas Golf Course, Prestwick 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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