Blair Lodge, 38 Racecourse Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Villa.
Blair Lodge, 38 Racecourse Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- open-chapel-crag
- 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
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 332 208
- Coordinates
- 55.45295, -4.63826
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blair Lodge, located at 38 Racecourse Road in Ayr, is an earlier 19th-century detached villa that has undergone some alterations. The building is two stories tall and features three bays. The entrance elevation is made of painted sandstone, while the sides are harled. It has a base course, a central dividing band course, an eaves course, a cornice, a blocking course, and pilastered quoins. The windows have aprons beneath them.
The southeast entrance elevation includes a central fluted Greek Doric entrance porch with a mutuled cornice and a blocking course. The entrance has a timber door and three circular panels in the letterbox fanlight above it, with a single window directly aligned above on the first floor. To the right, there are single windows on both the ground and first floors. On the left side, there is a canted bay window at the ground floor, which is likely a later addition, with a single window aligned above on the first floor.
The northeast elevation features a single-storey wing that advances to the right on the ground floor, with a window flanking to the left and an off-centre window to the right on the first floor.
The northwest and southwest elevations were not visible in 1999. The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with wallhead corniced stacks and polygonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1999. The property also includes square-plan gatepiers on the outer right with lamps on top, and a low coped boundary wall that encloses the site.
Local climate
Blair Lodge, 38 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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