Dovecot, 35 Racecourse Road, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Dovecot.
Dovecot, 35 Racecourse Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- night-rotunda-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Dovecot
- Address
- Dovecot, 35 Racecourse Road, Ayr, KA7 2TG
- OS grid reference
- NS 333 208
- Coordinates
- 55.45298, -4.63677
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at 35 Racecourse Road in Ayr dates from around 1820 and has undergone some later alterations. It is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular outbuilding that features a loft dovecot. The structure is built from rubble and has painted eaves courses, strip quoins, and various openings.
On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a square-headed entrance with a timber door. Above the door is a ball-finialed pediment that includes four flight holes in the tympanum. Flanking the entrance are porthole windows, and there are square-headed windows on the outer right and left sides, which were formerly entrances.
The northwest elevation features a central, infilled Venetian window, with infilled porthole windows on either side. The southeast elevation has a timber door located on the outer right. The northeast elevation was not visible during the 1999 inspection.
The building includes 16-pane timber sash and case windows and has a slate piend roof, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the 1999 inspection.
Local climate
Dovecot, 35 Racecourse 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 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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