Grotto, Fullarton Estate is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1988. Grotto.
Grotto, Fullarton Estate
- WRENN ID
- grey-corner-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Grotto
- OS grid reference
- NS 345 303
- Coordinates
- 55.53858, -4.62386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grotto at Fullarton Estate is likely from the mid 18th century and is a single-storey structure situated in a bank within the grounds of the now-demolished Fullarton House. It features a rubble sandstone exterior with polished sandstone dressings. The west-facing entrance has a rusticated depressed-arch opening, complete with a raised keystone and later 20th-century gates. Inside, the D-shaped interior has painted plaster walls and includes four regularly spaced niches with architraved cills, flanking pilasters, and scallop carving beneath keystoned arches. The roof is made of flat stone slabs.
Local climate
Grotto, Fullarton Estate 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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