View House, Doonfoot Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. House.
View House, Doonfoot Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- peeling-rotunda-magpie
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 331 203
- Coordinates
- 55.44809, -4.6395
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
View House, located on Doonfoot Road in Ayr, is a 2-storey, 8-bay building constructed in 1867 by James McDerment. This near rectangular-plan, symmetrical structure was part of the former Ayr racecourse and features classical detailing on its north-west elevation. The exterior is made of coursed sandstone rubble with harl on the rear and raised margins. It includes a base course, a band course, and overhanging eaves with timber detailing. The former central round-arched entrance on the street elevation has a dentilled rusticated doorway, which is currently a window.
The building has a piended roof covered with grey slates and coped ridge stacks. The windows are mainly 4-over 4-pane timber sash and case.
The interior, partially observed in 2014, contains changing rooms on the upper floors, a single common room, and a residential flat.
Additionally, there is a coped rubble boundary wall along the street elevation, featuring a pair of pyramidal-capped gatepiers and a decorative metal gate.
Local climate
View House, Doonfoot Road, Ayr 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 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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