Gardener's Cottage, Grey Gables, Southwood Road, Monkton is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1992.

Gardener's Cottage, Grey Gables, Southwood Road, Monkton

WRENN ID
seventh-crypt-crag
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1992
OS grid reference
NS 341 289
Coordinates
55.52601, -4.6283
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gardener's Cottage and stables, located at 3 Grey Gables, Southwood Road, Monkton, were built around 1908. The complex is arranged in a U-shape, encompassing both stables and a gardener’s house situated in the northwestern wing. The construction employs stugged and snecked sandstone rubble, with repointing evident. The roof is low-swept and slated, mirroring the house's design. The roofline sweeps east and west from the ridge over dormer windows, then sets back behind the dormers, continuing down to overhang the ground floor. Mullioned windows, both bipartite (divided into two sections) and tripartite (divided into three sections), feature leaded glazing, although the north-facing courtyard elevations have been altered with modern doors and windows. Wallhead gables are present at the northwest and northeast re-entrant angles. The northwest gable contains a tripartite attic window, while the northeast gable features a hayloft opening with a hoist at its apex. A decorative cupola sits centrally on the ridge, supported by eight dwarf columns on a corniced plinth, with a corniced section above. This leads to a leaded cupola topped with a finial.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage, Grey Gables, Southwood Road, Monkton 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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