Shore Boat House And Slipway, Culzean Castle Estate is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 November 2011. Boat house, slipway.
Shore Boat House And Slipway, Culzean Castle Estate
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-chamber-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 November 2011
- Type
- Boat house, slipway
- OS grid reference
- NS 231 102
- Coordinates
- 55.35446, -4.7909
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Shore Boat House and Slipway, attributed to the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa, was built in 1871 for the boat house and 1882 for the slipway. This single-storey, rectangular boat house is clad in vertically boarded timber and features a concrete slipway located on the shore beneath Culzean Castle.
On the north gable elevation of the boat house, there are timber double doors and a full-width fixed window with 16 vertical panes above the entrance. The east, south, and west elevations are blind, with a timber side door and short concrete lean-to buttresses on the west side. There is also a timber-framed fixed-case window, and the roof is irregularly pitched and covered with slates. The interior, as seen in 2011, consists of a single chamber with a raised platform to the west and south, timber columns on the west side, and exposed timber rafters and beams, along with a gracel floor.
The slipway is a flat concrete structure that extends from the boat house to the west.
Local climate
Shore Boat House And Slipway, Culzean Castle Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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