Sundrum Mains is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 1997. House.
Sundrum Mains
- WRENN ID
- fossil-finial-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1997
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 408 206
- Coordinates
- 55.45415, -4.51794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sundrum Mains is a farmhouse and steading dating from around 1830, associated with Sundrum Castle. The farmhouse features a plain two-storey U-shaped block with five bays and single bay advanced wings. It is likely that an earlier building was modified, with the wings and an attached cottage on the west added around 1830. The main front of the central section is constructed of coursed ashlar, while the wings and attached cottage are made of rubble. The building has a main cavetto cornice and mostly features sash and case windows, with axial stacks and piended slate roofs. The rear elevation is also rubble, with various window sizes that are generally symmetrical. There is an outer wall of what may have been a former pig sty attached to the north.
The steading, dated 1831, consists of a two-storey range with a 2-4-2 bay configuration and a higher central section, ramping down to a single storey at the rear. It is built of coursed snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The ground floor has five four-centred arches that support a plain upper floor, which features vertical ventilation slits and a large central loft access door. The eastern section includes living accommodation above farm offices, with end stacks and slate roofs.
The rear elevation of the steading has ventilation slots, various door and window openings, and a large central doorway. There is a largely intact rubble horse mill with a slated, zinc-capped roof and weathervane, and the roof timbers are intact. Additionally, there are remains of a gas house to the north of the steading.
Local climate
Sundrum Mains sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 21 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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