Kirkhill House is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Kirkhill House
- WRENN ID
- stark-pillar-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 145 859
- Coordinates
- 55.13354, -4.91013
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkhill House is a mansion dating to around 1840, situated close to the ruins of the earlier Kirkhill Castle. It is a pleasing stone building with gabled detailing, exhibiting Gothic features, Tudor-style chimney stacks, mullioned windows, and drip moulds. Further details are recorded in Castles & Mansions of Ayrshire by A.H. Millar.
Local climate
Kirkhill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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