Elgin House, 29 Midton Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Cottage.

Elgin House, 29 Midton Road, Ayr

WRENN ID
ragged-soffit-magpie
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
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 337 209
Coordinates
55.45363, -4.63114
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Elgin House is a later 19th century single storey and attic cottage located on a corner site at 29 Midton Road in Ayr. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a base course, timber eaves, and painted strip margins.

On the southeast elevation, there is a central square-headed entrance with a timber door and a split letterbox fanlight above, which has a labelmould over it. To the right, there is a tripartite window, with a matching tripartite window in the attic directly above it. The left side has a canted window bay, with a single window aligned above in the attic.

The northeast elevation features a gable with a window set in the gablehead, while the adjoining bays to the right were not visible in 1999. The northwest elevation was also not seen in 1999.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical and has two bays, with a gabled bay advanced to the left. It features a tripartite window in the centre of the ground floor, which has a hoodmould, and a window set in the gablehead above it. To the right, there is a bipartite window with a hoodmould.

The cottage has timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with a central ridge stack and polygonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1999.

The property is enclosed by square-plan painted stone gatepiers and a low coped boundary wall, with modern fencing on top.

Local climate

Elgin House, 29 Midton 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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