Hanging Garden, Auchincruive is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. Hanging garden.

Hanging Garden, Auchincruive

WRENN ID
carved-foundation-primrose
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2000
Type
Hanging garden
OS grid reference
NS 388 234
Coordinates
55.47783, -4.55205
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hanging Garden in Auchincruive dates from around 1840 and features a three-tiered shallow terraced design that faces east towards the River Ayr. The garden is enclosed by coped sandstone rubble walls that slope down to the south, with regularly spaced semi-circular-plan buttresses supporting each terrace and angular buttresses on the sloping wall to the south. Decorative terracotta edging tiles enhance the garden's appearance, and cast-iron railings line the upper terrace. There are steps leading to the walls on the north side.

Local climate

Hanging Garden, Auchincruive 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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