Brig O'Doon Hotel, Alloway, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

Brig O'Doon Hotel, Alloway, Ayr

WRENN ID
fallow-tin-vermeil
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
Hotel
Address
Brig O'Doon Hotel, Alloway, Ayr, KA7 4PQ
OS grid reference
NS 332 179
Coordinates
55.42689, -4.63732
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Brig O'Doon Hotel, located in Alloway, Ayr, was built in 1827 and underwent later alterations by Allan Stevenson between 1903 and 1904. This two-storey hotel with an attic features five bays and is situated on a corner site. The exterior is finished in painted harl and has bracketed timber eaves.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is an advanced gabled entrance porch with a two-leaf timber door. Above this, a single gabled attic dormer is aligned. Flanking the entrance are single windows at both the ground and first floors. The advanced gabled bay to the left has single windows at the ground, first, and attic floors, while the lower height gabled bay to the right features a broad oriel window. Steps lead up to the outer right.

The southwest elevation is gabled and includes a central window at both the ground and first floors. The southeast elevation is mostly obscured by single-storey and two-storey additions. The northeast elevation was not visible during the last inspection in 1999.

The interior was also not seen during the 1999 inspection. The hotel has small-pane modern timber windows, a slate roof with ridge and pitch stacks, and circular cans. Additionally, it features cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Brig O'Doon Hotel, Alloway, 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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