Robert Burns Museum, Alloway, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. Museum. 3 related planning applications.
Robert Burns Museum, Alloway, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rotunda-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Robert Burns Museum, Alloway, Ayr, KA7 4PY
- OS grid reference
- NS 334 186
- Coordinates
- 55.43313, -4.63342
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Robert Burns Museum in Alloway, Ayr, was designed by Allan Stevenson in 1900. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features an asymmetrical 10-bay plan, finished with painted harl.
On the southwest entrance elevation, there is an advanced blank gabled bay on the outer left and a timber colonnade to the right. The entrance includes glazed timber doors on the left, right, and center, with three single windows between the central and left entrances, and two single windows between the central and right entrances. To the left, there are two gabled attic dormers with narrow strip glazing, and a gabled timber glazed entrance porch is located on the outer right.
The southeast side elevation, facing Alloway, has four bays. It features a canted bay on the outer left and single windows on all faces, including a single window on the right at ground floor and a three-light attic window. The gablehead is adorned with timber boarding, and there is a window within a recessed shelter on the outer right.
The northwest and northeast elevations were not visible in 1999. The building includes stained glass and predominantly 20-pane timber sash and case windows with timber shutters. The roof is covered with red slate, featuring a coped ridge and pitch stacks, along with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.
Inside, the museum boasts a decorative tiled floor, corniced picture hanging rails, and coved ceilings that rise to canted skylights.
Local climate
Robert Burns Museum, Alloway, 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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