Dairy Research Department, Auchincruive Estate is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 November 2004. Research department.
Dairy Research Department, Auchincruive Estate
- WRENN ID
- veiled-moulding-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 November 2004
- Type
- Research department
- OS grid reference
- NS 383 234
- Coordinates
- 55.4782, -4.55966
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dairy Research Department at Auchincruive Estate is a building designed by Alex Mair around 1931, with a rear extension added by Cowie Torry & Partners in 1986. It is a symmetrical, two-storey structure with a piend roof, featuring a classical style. The central entrance bay is advanced and includes a projecting corniced doorpiece with an inscribed tablet. The flanking bays contain two sets of paired windows, with the first-floor windows being smaller. The gables have three bays, and the building has a red brick base course, red tiled cills, and broad overhanging eaves that are mutulated at the entrance bay. The exterior is rendered.
On the north (rear) elevation, there are eight bays with flanking outer bays. The right side has a single-storey wing with a blind arch, while the left side features an elevated single-storey long extension with a brick course, regular fenestration, and a piended slate roof with broad eaves. The windows are small-pane casements made of metal, and the building has cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. The roof is covered with grey graded slates. The interior was not seen in 2004.
Local climate
Dairy Research Department, Auchincruive Estate 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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