Sherringhurst, 2 Wheatfield Road, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Sherringhurst, 2 Wheatfield Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- tangled-postern-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Sherringhurst, 2 Wheatfield Road, Ayr, KA7 2XB
- OS grid reference
- NS 332 211
- Coordinates
- 55.45533, -4.63818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sherringhurst is a villa located at 2 Wheatfield Road in Ayr, built in 1888. This two-storey, four-bay villa features a near L-plan design with a corner polygonal tower. It is constructed from red squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. The building has a battered, banded base course, a ground floor cill course, and a bracketed eaves course.
On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there are steps leading to a recessed gabled entrance porch on the outer right. This porch contains an architraved doorpiece with a keyblock dated 1888 and an ornate console to the right, leading to a two-leaf timber door. To the right, there is a circular four-window corner bay that rises to a corbelled octagonal tower at the first floor, topped with a triglyph entablature and a circular roof featuring an iron finial at the apex. The central bay has single windows on both the ground and first floors, while the outer left has an advanced four-light rectangular window on the ground floor and a three-light window aligned above it at the first floor.
The southeast and northeast elevations were not visible in 1999. The northwest elevation displays irregular fenestration on both the ground and first floors. The villa features timber windows, a slate roof with coped stacks and circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1999. The property also includes circular stone gatepiers on the outer right and left, with a two-leaf iron gate for vehicular access on the left and a single iron gate for pedestrian access on the right. The boundary is marked by a banded, stepped stone wall with railings atop the lower sections.
Local climate
Sherringhurst, 2 Wheatfield 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 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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