South Lodge, Bellisle Estate, Doonfoot Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.

South Lodge, Bellisle Estate, Doonfoot Road, Ayr

WRENN ID
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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
Lodge
Address
South Lodge, Bellisle Estate, Doonfoot Road, Ayr, KA7 4DU
OS grid reference
NS 329 195
Coordinates
55.44084, -4.64192
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

South Lodge, located on the Bellisle Estate along Doonfoot Road in Ayr, is an earlier 19th-century single-storey lodge designed in a T-plan with Jacobean details and later additions. The building is constructed from squared sandstone and features a base course and ball finials on the gables.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has two bays. To the right, there is an advanced gabled entrance porch with a square-headed opening and a square plaque above it. To the left, a stone-roofed canted bay includes a plaque on the gablehead.

On the northwest elevation facing Doonfoot Road, there is a bipartite window to the left and a tripartite window in the gabled section to the right. A small arrowslit opening is present in the gable.

The northeast elevation, which is the rear, has two window openings in a lean-to structure. The southeast elevation features a single window on the outer left, two single windows in the gablehead to the left, and a small arrowslit opening in the gable. There are also two openings in a later advanced section to the right and a square-headed entrance to the lean-to on the outer right.

The lodge has timber windows, which are predominantly reinforced or boarded. It has a slate roof with stone skews, diagonally shafted stacks, and circular cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

The property is complemented by gatepiers and a boundary wall, which include two pairs of octagonal coped gatepiers topped with urn finials and curved wing walls.

Local climate

South Lodge, Bellisle Estate, Doonfoot 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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