Main Drive Wall Including Piers, Culzean Castle Estate is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 November 2011. Wall.

Main Drive Wall Including Piers, Culzean Castle Estate

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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
Wall
OS grid reference
NS 241 103
Coordinates
55.35524, -4.77596
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Main Drive Wall, including its piers, is a rustic stone wall built around 1809, located on the east side of the Main Drive leading to Culzean Country Park at Glenside. The wall features a hungry-jointed construction made of boulders and pebbles, topped with boulder coping. At both the northern and southern ends, there are piers with upright rubble stones that create coronet copes above a cornice of pebbles. Additionally, there are two short sections of wall without piers on each side of the drive.

Local climate

Main Drive Wall Including Piers, 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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