Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 2010. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill
- WRENN ID
- moated-moulding-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 October 2010
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill, KA26 0PP
- OS grid reference
- NX 230 825
- Coordinates
- 55.10539, -4.77544
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Arnsheen Church in Barrhill, designed by Robert Samson Ingram in 1887, is a Scottish Baronial building with a cruciform shape and crow-stepped gables. It features a four-stage clock tower at the southeast corner and is located on a small rise at the northwest entrance to the village. The church is constructed from coursed whinstone with contrasting sandstone ashlar margins and includes a base course. The windows are mostly bi-partite with round-arched openings, and there is a gabled single-storey vestry at the rear.
The entrance elevation faces southwest and is asymmetrical. It has a central gabled entrance porch with a moulded round-arched doorpiece and a two-leaf slatted timber entrance door. To the right, the tower has an asymmetrical castellated parapet, a band course, and a chevroned moulding along the cornice, with a louvred opening at the third stage. The corners of the canted fourth stage feature incised crosses.
At the rear, there is a recessed gabled entrance hall that lies perpendicular to the entrance porch, leading to a taller gabled section with a decorative rose window.
Inside, as observed in 2010, most furnishings have been removed, revealing an open-timber ceiling, a decorative timber pulpit, and an organ case. Some panelled timber round-arched doors remain, along with a turnpike stair leading to the tower. The windows predominantly feature small leaded coloured glass panes. The roof is covered with purple graded slates and red ridge tiles, and the cast-iron rainwater goods include decorative hoppers.
Local climate
Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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