Altan Albany is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 September 1978.
Altan Albany
- WRENN ID
- burning-courtyard-fog
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 September 1978
- OS grid reference
- NX 273 936
- Coordinates
- 55.207, -4.71553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alton Albany is a C-grade farmhouse, likely dating to the 18th century. The building is in an L shape and has limewashed walls with black painted dressings. It features a gabled porch in one corner and ridge slate roofs. The main gable has three sash windows on each of the two floors. Extensive byres (agricultural buildings) are situated to the rear, arranged around a courtyard.
Local climate
Altan Albany sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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