Robert Burns Birthplace Museum Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 394524 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 47134
- Canmore ID
- 201800
- Category
- C
- Name
- Alloway, Burns Cottage, Burns Museum
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233476
- Northing
- 618625
- Date Listed
- 29 March 2000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Allan Stevenson, 1900. Single storey and attic, 10-bay asymmetrical-plan museum. Painted harl. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced blank gabled bay to outer left; timber colonnade to right. Glazed timber entrance doors to left, right and centre; 3 single windows between central and left entrance; 2 single windows between central and right entrance; 2 gabled attic dormers to left with narrow strip glazing. Gabled timber glazed entrance porch to outer right. SE (SIDE, ALLOWAY) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Canted bay to outer left; single windows to all faces; single window to right at ground floor; 3-light attic window; timber boarding to gablehead; window within recessed shelter to outer right. NW AND NE ELEVATIONS: not seen 1999. Stained glass and predominantly 20-pane timber sash and case windows (with timber shutters). Red slate roof; coped ridge and pitch stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: decorative tiled floor; corniced picture hanging rails; coved ceilings rise to canted skylights.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Adjacent to Burns Cottage, the birthplace of Robert Burns (see separate list description). Notable for its vernacular detailing, including the asymmetric gable to Alloway, the strip windows to the attic dormers and the timber colonnade.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ordnance Survey map, 1896 (not evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1909 (evident); FH Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1 (1892), p44; THE THIRD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND: AYRSHIRE (1951), p534; John Strawhorn and Ken Andrew DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE (1988), p108; Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p155; NMRS Photographic Archive (B78701).
