Bachelors' Club, Sandgate Street, Tarbolton is a Grade A listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House.
Bachelors' Club, Sandgate Street, Tarbolton
- WRENN ID
- long-wicket-candle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bachelors' Club, Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, KA5 5QF
- OS grid reference
- NS 431 271
- Coordinates
- 55.51315, -4.48615
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bachelors' Club on Sandgate Street in Tarbolton is a 17th-century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan, featuring whitewashed rubble walls and a straw thatched roof with a raised reed thatched ridge. The eaves are adorned with a modillion course.
On the north elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central square-headed entrance with a panelled timber door. To the left, there is a single window with a timber shutter, and to the right, an additional entrance with another panelled timber door. The first floor has two single windows with a plaque for the Bachelors' Club positioned between them.
The east elevation has a single window on the left at ground floor and another on the right at first floor, with the ground floor window having a timber shutter. A recessed stair on the outer left provides access to the first floor and features a timber handrail.
The south elevation includes an external stair leading to the first floor, flanked by single windows on the first floor. There is an infilled opening to the left at ground floor, along with single windows at both ground and first floors on the outer left.
The windows throughout the building are small-paned timber, with some being sash and case. The house has painted brick gablehead stacks, with circular cans present on the left side only.
Inside, the ground floor reflects a reconstruction of its use from the time of Robert Burns. It is divided into a byre and kitchen, featuring a stone floor, a timber dado ceiling, and dado panelling on the south wall. The west wall contains the byre, while the east wall has a plain corniced fireplace and grate. The first floor serves as a debating room, with a timber floor and a whitewashed flat ceiling, along with plain square-headed fireplaces on the east and west walls.
Additionally, there is a whitewashed boundary wall to the east of the house.
Local climate
Bachelors' Club, Sandgate Street, Tarbolton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 21 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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