Lodge And Gateway, Seafield Sick Children's Hospital, 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.
Lodge And Gateway, Seafield Sick Children's Hospital, Doonfoot Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- winding-arch-oak
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 331 202
- Coordinates
- 55.44782, -4.64019
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge and gateway at Seafield Sick Children's Hospital on Doonfoot Road in Ayr were designed by Clarke & Bell and RA Bryden around 1880. This single-storey, three-bay lodge is arranged in an L-shape and constructed from coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. It features a base course, an eaves course, a bracketed cornice, and strip quoins.
On the northeast (entrance) elevation, there are steps leading to a shouldered open porch with a timber door. To the left of the porch is a single window, and to the outer right is a canted advanced bay. The northwest (side) elevation has a single central window. The southeast (rear) elevation includes a single window to the left, a timber door leading to a catslide section on the right, and a single window returning to the left. The southwest elevation was not visible in 1999.
The lodge features timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with pitched stacks and circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1999.
The gatepiers, railings, and boundary wall consist of paired square-plan dentilled gatepiers with a low coped wall between them. High decorative iron railings sit atop the wall, which is higher and encloses the site.
Local climate
Lodge And Gateway, Seafield Sick Children's Hospital, 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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