Ayr, View House Doonfoot Road, Gatepiers And Gates is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980.

Ayr, View House Doonfoot Road, Gatepiers And Gates

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
OS grid reference
NS 331 203
Coordinates
55.44819, -4.63965
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

View House, located on Doonfoot Road in Ayr, is a 2-storey, 8-bay building constructed in 1867 by James McDerment. This near rectangular-plan, symmetrical structure was part of the former Ayr racecourse and features classical detailing on its north-west elevation. The exterior is made of coursed sandstone rubble with harl on the rear and raised margins. It includes a base course, a band course, and overhanging eaves with timber detailing. The former central round-arched entrance on the street elevation has a dentilled rusticated doorway, which is currently a window.

The building has a piended roof covered with grey slates and coped ridge stacks. The windows are mainly 4-over 4-pane timber sash and case.

The interior, partially observed in 2014, contains changing rooms on the upper floors, a single common room, and a residential flat.

Additionally, there is a coped rubble boundary wall along the street elevation, featuring a pair of pyramidal-capped gatepiers and a decorative metal gate.

Local climate

Ayr, View House Doonfoot Road, Gatepiers And Gates 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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