Parish Church, Main Street, Ballantrae is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. 3 related planning applications.

Parish Church, Main Street, Ballantrae

WRENN ID
lone-bronze-starling
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Address
Parish Church, Main Street, Ballantrae, KA26 0NB
OS grid reference
NX 083 824
Coordinates
55.09966, -5.0051
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The parish church, located on Main Street in Ballantrae, was built in 1819. A clock tower was added in 1891. It remains in use as an ecclesiastical building. The church is noted for its good pulpit. Further details are provided in Architecture of Scottish Post Reformation Churches on pages 188, 206, and 248.

Local climate

Parish Church, Main Street, Ballantrae sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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