Real Tennis Court Adjoining Nursing Home, 19 Crosbie Road, Troon is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1990. Real tennis court.

Real Tennis Court Adjoining Nursing Home, 19 Crosbie Road, Troon

WRENN ID
dusted-chimney-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1990
Type
Real tennis court
OS grid reference
NS 332 292
Coordinates
55.52859, -4.6441
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a real tennis court, designed by Joseph Bickley in 1905 and restored in the later 20th century, specifically in the 1960s. It has a large rectangular plan with eight bays and is buttressed, located next to a nursing home. The exterior features whitewashed render, with a blind ground level and timber strapping at the upper level, topped by a glazed pitched roof. There is a lean-to addition on the northeast side.

On the southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is red sandstone with a pedimented, moulded doorpiece and a panelled timber entrance door located to the far right. The upper level is blind.

The northwest elevation, or rear, has regularly arranged tripartite rows of glazing set within timber strapping at the upper level.

Inside, the court is enclosed by a covered lean-to structure on the northeast, southeast, and southwest sides supported by metal columns. Timber strapping defines the scoring areas, and the net position is discernible. There are hooks in place, various crowns painted on the walls, and an open metal-braced ceiling.

Local climate

Real Tennis Court Adjoining Nursing Home, 19 Crosbie Road, Troon 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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