Gatepiers, Marr College, Dundonald Road, Troon is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1977. Gatepiers.

Gatepiers, Marr College, Dundonald Road, Troon

WRENN ID
fossil-granite-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1977
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
NS 331 311
Coordinates
55.54536, -4.64562
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gatepiers at Marr College, designed by John Arthur around 1919, consist of four square-plan piers that flank the vehicular and pedestrian entrance. They are made of coursed sandstone ashlar and feature raised plinths with stepped panels centered on their facets. The inner piers have "MC" embossed on them, and the square-plan caps are adorned with key-pattern banding. The gates are currently missing, as are the sinuous dwarf linking walls.

Local climate

Gatepiers, Marr College, Dundonald Road, Troon 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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