This is a list of Category A listed buildings in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or historic interest".[1] Category A structures are those considered to be "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic, or fine little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."[2] Listing was begun by a provision in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947, and the current legislative basis for listing is the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.[3] The authority for listing rests with Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, which inherited this role from the Scottish Development Department in 1991. Once listed, severe restrictions are imposed on the modifications allowed to a building's structure or its fittings. Listed building consent must be obtained from local authorities prior to any alteration to such a structure.[3] There are approximately 47,400 listed buildings in Scotland, of which around 8% (some 3,800) are Category A.[4]
The council area of East Ayrshire covers 1,262 square kilometres (487 sq mi), and has a population of around 119,900. There are 45 Category A listed buildings in the area.
Name | Location | Date Listed | Grid Ref. [note 1] | Geo-coordinates | Notes | LB Number [note 2] | Image |
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Dumfries House, The Temple | Dumfries House estate, near Cumnock | NS5390821384 | 55°27′52″N 4°18′44″W / 55.464416°N 4.312284°W | Pair of restored lodges forming part of the Dumfries House estate[5] | 96 | Upload another image | |
Auchinleck House | Auchinleck | NS5072623016 | 55°28′41″N 4°21′48″W / 55.478107°N 4.363443°W | House of c. 1760, by Robert Adam[6] | 948 | Upload another image | |
Waterside Engine House | Waterside Ironworks, Dalmellington | NS4417308383 | 55°20′41″N 4°27′32″W / 55.344699°N 4.458846°W | Mid 19th-century industrial building[7] | 1092 | Upload Photo | |
The Hill | Dunlop | NS4127648835 | 55°42′25″N 4°31′40″W / 55.706897°N 4.527673°W | Mid 18th-century farmhouse[8] | 5184 | Upload Photo | |
Dunlop House | Dunlop | NS4273749312 | 55°42′42″N 4°30′17″W / 55.711655°N 4.50472°W | Baronial house of 1834 by David Hamilton[9] | 5187 | Upload another image | |
Clandeboye Vault | Dunlop Parish Church Graveyard, Dunlop | NS4048649398 | 55°42′42″N 4°32′26″W / 55.711691°N 4.54056°W | 1641 tomb of Hans Hamilton, first Protestant minister of Dunlop[10] | 5191 | Upload another image | |
Clandeboye Schoolhouse | Main Street, Dunlop | NS4048949397 | 55°42′42″N 4°32′26″W / 55.711683°N 4.540512°W | School founded in 1641 by Viscount Clandeboye, one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Scotland[11] | 5192 | Upload Photo | |
Kirkland | Main Street, Dunlop | NS4064849471 | 55°42′45″N 4°32′17″W / 55.7124°N 4.538027°W | Early-16th-century former manse, one of the oldest unfortified houses to survive in Scotland[12] | 5194 | Upload another image | |
Rowallan Castle | Kilmaurs | NS4347242427 | 55°39′00″N 4°29′21″W / 55.650089°N 4.489103°W | 16th- to 17th-century Baronial mansion[13] | 12523 | Upload another image | |
Rowallan House | Kilmaurs | NS4327742725 | 55°39′10″N 4°29′33″W / 55.652701°N 4.492368°W | Country house by Robert Lorimer, completed 1906[14] | 12524 | Upload another image | |
Craufurdland Castle | Near Kilmarnock | NS4558540798 | 55°38′10″N 4°27′17″W / 55.636141°N 4.454642°W | 19th-century Gothic house incorporating 17th-century and earlier buildings[15] | 12530 | Upload another image | |
Loudoun Castle | Galston | NS5065337776 | 55°36′38″N 4°22′21″W / 55.610595°N 4.372569°W | 1807 country house by Archibald Elliot, now in ruins[16] | 12536 | Upload another image | |
Laigh Milton Viaduct | Over the River Irvine at Gatehead | NS3834936902 | 55°35′56″N 4°34′02″W / 55.598818°N 4.567181°W | The earliest surviving railway bridge in Scotland, opened in 1812[17] | 12556 | Upload another image | |
Cessnock Castle | Galston | NS5107635517 | 55°35′26″N 4°21′53″W / 55.590444°N 4.364639°W | Late-19th-century mansion, incorporating an earlier tower house[18] | 12562 | Upload Photo | |
Tour Dovecot | Kilmaurs | NS4138140664 | 55°38′01″N 4°31′17″W / 55.633585°N 4.521279°W | Dovecote dated 1636[19] | 12578 | Upload another image | |
Kilmaurs Tolbooth | Kilmaurs | NS4104141210 | 55°38′18″N 4°31′37″W / 55.638375°N 4.52699°W | Former parish council chambers and jail[20] | 12588 | Upload another image | |
Alexander Morton Monument | Beside A71 between Newmilns and Darvel | NS5521637472 | 55°36′33″N 4°18′00″W / 55.609245°N 4.300034°W | Monument by Robert Lorimer, completed 1927[21] | 13461 | Upload Photo | |
Sornhill Farm | Galston | NS5095834140 | 55°34′41″N 4°21′57″W / 55.578046°N 4.365766°W | 17th- to 18th-century farmhouse[22] | 13829 | Upload Photo | |
Catrine Parish Church | Catrine | NS5276026004 | 55°30′20″N 4°19′58″W / 55.50555°N 4.332876°W | Late-18th-century chapel of ease[23] | 14264 | Upload another image | |
Sorn Old Bridge | Over River Ayr at Sorn | NS5496626731 | 55°30′46″N 4°17′54″W / 55.512737°N 4.29836°W | Hump-backed stone bridge[24] | 14272 | Upload another image | |
Sorn Castle | Sorn | NS5480426913 | 55°30′52″N 4°18′04″W / 55.514323°N 4.301018°W | 16th-century tower house with 18th- and 19th-century additions[25] | 14273 | Upload another image | |
Sorn Castle Stables | Sorn | NS5455327026 | 55°30′55″N 4°18′18″W / 55.515263°N 4.305049°W | Early-19th- or late-18th-century classical courtyard[26] | 14274 | Upload Photo | |
Stair Bridge | Over the River Ayr at Stair | NS4376623477 | 55°28′48″N 4°28′25″W / 55.480071°N 4.473715°W | Three-arch bridge built 1745[27] | 14371 | Upload another image | |
Stair House | Stair | NS4400123808 | 55°28′59″N 4°28′13″W / 55.483117°N 4.470186°W | 17th-century country house[28] | 14372 | Upload another image | |
Dumfries House | Cumnock | NS5414120398 | 55°27′20″N 4°18′29″W / 55.455633°N 4.308085°W | Country house built 1759 to designs by John, Robert and James Adam[29] | 14413 | Upload another image | |
Dumfries House, Avenue Bridge | Over the River Lugar in Dumfries House estate, Cumnock | NS5379820643 | 55°27′28″N 4°18′49″W / 55.45773°N 4.313633°W | Three-arch bridge contemporary with the house[30] | 14414 | Upload another image | |
Dumfries House Dovecote | Dumfries House estate, Cumnock | NS5395120350 | 55°27′19″N 4°18′40″W / 55.455145°N 4.311061°W | 17th-century dovecote[31] | 14416 | Upload another image | |
Mauchline Castle (Abbot Hunter's Tower) | Mauchline | NS4977127264 | 55°30′57″N 4°22′51″W / 55.515952°N 4.38084°W | Former grange of Melrose Abbey, c. 1450[32] | 14471 | Upload another image | |
Ballochmyle Viaduct | Over the River Ayr near Mauchline | NS5087925392 | 55°29′58″N 4°21′44″W / 55.499485°N 4.362302°W | Railway viaduct opened in 1850[33] | 14483 | Upload another image | |
Kennox House | West of Stewarton | NS3846944946 | 55°40′16″N 4°34′12″W / 55.671062°N 4.570004°W | Mid-18th-century house with substantial early-19th-century additions[34] | 18490 | Upload another image | |
High Williamshaw | North-east of Stewarton | NS4400748326 | 55°42′12″N 4°29′02″W / 55.703214°N 4.483965°W | Late-18th-century gentleman's house[35] | 18496 | Upload another image | |
Treesbanks House Dovecot | Ayr Road, Kilmarnock | NS4196234522 | 55°34′43″N 4°30′31″W / 55.57864°N 4.508536°W | Dovecote of 1771[36] | 18512 | Upload Photo | |
Caprington Castle | West of Kilmarnock | NS4077536251 | 55°35′38″N 4°31′42″W / 55.593774°N 4.528343°W | Gothic mansion of c. 1820, incorporating and earlier building[37] | 18517 | Upload another image | |
Craigengillan | South of Dalmellington | NS4735002817 | 55°17′45″N 4°24′21″W / 55.295726°N 4.405767°W | 18th-century house, enlarged in the Gothic style in the 19th century[38] | 18793 | Upload another image | |
Craigengillan Stable Block | Craigengillan, south of Dalmellington | NS4736502755 | 55°17′43″N 4°24′20″W / 55.295174°N 4.405497°W | Late-18th-century classical stable court[39] | 18794 | Upload another image | |
Loch Doon Castle | Loch Doon | NX4881494758 | 55°13′26″N 4°22′42″W / 55.223824°N 4.378403°W | Remains of an eleven-sided curtain-wall castle[40] | 18795 | Upload another image | |
Barskimming New Bridge | Over River Ayr at Barskimming, Mauchline | NS4821425194 | 55°29′49″N 4°24′16″W / 55.496887°N 4.404342°W | Later 18th-century bridge, with adjacent estate workers' houses and a viewing platform[41] | 19483 | Upload another image | |
Cumnock Mercat Cross | The Square, Cumnock | NS5678320132 | 55°27′14″N 4°15′58″W / 55.454025°N 4.266206°W | Mercat cross dating to 1703[42] | 24093 | Upload another image | |
Bank (or Templand) Railway Viaduct | Over Lugar Water in Woodroad Park, Cumnock | NS5739520624 | 55°27′31″N 4°15′24″W / 55.458621°N 4.256789°W | 13-arch viaduct completed 1850[43] | 24133 | Upload another image | |
St Sophia's Roman Catholic Church | Bentinck Street, Galston | NS5028436510 | 55°35′57″N 4°22′40″W / 55.599116°N 4.377734°W | Byzantine-style church of 1886 by Robert Weir Schultz[44] | 32010 | Upload another image | |
Laigh Kirk | Bank Street, Kilmarnock | NS4276737948 | 55°36′35″N 4°29′52″W / 55.609654°N 4.497734°W | Early-19th-century church with 17th-century tower[45] | 35875 | Upload another image | |
Dean Castle | Dean Road, Kilmarnock | NS4368439416 | 55°37′23″N 4°29′02″W / 55.623128°N 4.484025°W | Late-14th- or early-15th-century tower house with later additions, restored in the 20th century[46] | 35884 | Upload another image | |
Palace Theatre, former Corn Exchange | Green Street, Kilmarnock | NS4298237941 | 55°36′35″N 4°29′40″W / 55.609661°N 4.49432°W | Italianate corn exchange built 1863 by James Ingram, converted in the 20th century[47] | 35903 | Upload another image | |
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church | Dundonald Road, Kilmarnock | NS4258737720 | 55°36′27″N 4°30′02″W / 55.60755°N 4.500458°W | Mid 19th-century church, extended in 1876 by George Gilbert Scott[48] | 35946 | Upload another image | |
Old High Kirk, including kirkyard with Soulis Monument | Soulis Street, Kilmarnock | NS4296838249 | 55°36′45″N 4°29′41″W / 55.612421°N 4.494718°W | Church of 1740, to designs taken from a James Gibbs pattern book[49] | 35965 | Upload another image |
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