Walled Garden, Mount Charles House, Mount Charles Crescent, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Mount Charles House, Mount Charles Crescent, Ayr

WRENN ID
wild-tracery-juniper
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2000
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NS 326 186
Coordinates
55.43277, -4.64625
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden at Mount Charles House in Ayr is a rectangular structure built from coped rubble. It is located to the southwest of the main house and opens to the south, providing a view over the River Doon. The western and eastern walls slope downwards, and there are slate-roofed lean-to equipment sheds within the garden.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Mount Charles House, Mount Charles Crescent, 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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