The Lodge, 53 Greenfield Avenue, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Gate lodge. 3 related planning applications.
The Lodge, 53 Greenfield Avenue, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- final-sentry-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- The Lodge, 53 Greenfield Avenue, Ayr, KA7 4NX
- OS grid reference
- NS 327 190
- Coordinates
- 55.43667, -4.64565
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lodge at 53 Greenfield Avenue in Ayr dates from around 1829 and features later additions. This single-storey gate lodge has an asymmetric plan and is constructed from squared sandstone with harling on the rear. It has a base course and timber bracketed eaves with paired mutules.
The northeast entrance elevation showcases an advanced distyle unfluted Greek Doric entrance porch, which includes a glazed timber door, a letterbox fanlight, and flanking single windows with pentice porches above.
On the northwest side elevation, there is a single window with a pentice porch above. The southwest and southeast elevations were not visible in 1999.
The lodge is fitted with timber sash and case windows and has a slate roof with timber bracketed eaves. It features twin central octagonal stacks and single coped stacks at the rear, along with circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
The property also includes square-plan gatepiers, a low coped boundary wall at the entrance, and spear-headed railings on top.
Local climate
The Lodge, 53 Greenfield Avenue, 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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