North Lodge, Doonholm Estate, Doonholm Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.

North Lodge, Doonholm Estate, Doonholm Road, Ayr

WRENN ID
lone-bastion-tallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
Gate lodge
Address
North Lodge, Doonholm Estate, Doonholm Road, Ayr, KA6 6BL
OS grid reference
NS 338 179
Coordinates
55.42735, -4.62643
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North Lodge is a gate lodge from the earlier 19th century, located at the northern entrance to the Doonholm Estate on Doonholm Road in Ayr. It is a single-storey structure with an asymmetrical plan, featuring coursed, squared sandstone and render. The lodge has a base course, deep eaves, and splayed corner angles.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has an advanced pedimented entrance to the left with a timber door. There is a narrow window to the left of the entrance and a three-light window with a deep window hood to the right.

The north elevation facing Doonholm Road is also two bays, with window openings in the advanced bay to the left and the recessed bay to the right, both topped with deep window hoods.

The east and south elevations were not visible during the 1999 inspection. The lodge predominantly features small-paned timber windows and has a slate piend roof with coped pitch stacks and circular cans.

The interior was not seen during the 1999 inspection. The gatepiers, railings, and boundary wall include square-plan gatepiers with chamfered angles and spear-headed railings atop a low coped boundary wall.

Local climate

North Lodge, Doonholm Estate, Doonholm Road, 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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