Lych Gate, Auld Kirk, Kirk Port, Ayr is a Grade A listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Gateway.
Lych Gate, Auld Kirk, Kirk Port, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- riven-passage-hawthorn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Gateway
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46304, -4.62927
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lych Gate at Auld Kirk in Kirk Port, Ayr, dates back to 1656 and has undergone later alterations. It features a square-plan design constructed from sandstone rubble. The eastern gable elevation has an elliptical pend arch, while the screen wall facing Kirk Port has a roll-moulded elliptical pend arch. Inside, there is stone and timber seating along with mort-safes built into the interior walls, and a braced timber ceiling. The entrance from Kirk Port is adorned with two-leaf spear-headed iron gates, and the structure is topped with a grey slate roof.
Local climate
Lych Gate, Auld Kirk, Kirk Port, 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 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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