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Mount Oliphant

A Category B Listed Building in Ayr, South Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4212 / 55°25'16"N

Longitude: -4.5988 / 4°35'55"W

OS Eastings: 235620

OS Northings: 617213

OS Grid: NS356172

Mapcode National: GBR 4B.0HFZ

Mapcode Global: WH3R1.BZCY

Plus Code: 9C7QCCC2+FF

Entry Name: Mount Oliphant

Listing Name: Mount Oliphant

Listing Date: 14 April 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 331459

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB999

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200331459

Location: Ayr

County: South Ayrshire

Electoral Ward: Maybole, North Carrick and Coylton

Parish: Ayr

Traditional County: Ayrshire

Tagged with: Farmstead

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Description

Mid 18th century; later additions and alterations. Single storey and attic, 3-bay house with adjoining outbuilding wings forming open courtyard. Predominantly whitewashed rubble.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay house; modern timber door flanked to left by modern window to centre bay of ground floor, windows to flanking bays to left and right; 2 modern rectangular dormers to attic floor. Single bay links to outbuilding wings to left and right, glazed boarded timber door to left, window to right; wings advanced to outer left and right; inside returns not seen 1999.

N ELEVATION: predominantly blank, 3 irregular openings to outer right, skylights to attic floor.

W ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

S ELEVATION: roof swept down to bays to left, remainder not seen 1999.

4-pane timber sash and case windows and modern glazing. Graded grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

Statement of Interest

Mount Oliphant was originally called South High Corton. It was owned by James McDermeit Fergushill, a writer, who sold it to Dr William Fergusson of Doonholm along with its farmland in 1758. Around 1766 Fergusson rented the property and land to William Burnes, farther of Robert Burns. Robert Burns (1759-1796) lived there from the age of 7 to 19, "it familiarised him with 'Alloway Kirk', the 'Banks and Braes o'Bonnie Doon', and other themes of his poetry" (Groome, p76). According to Groome and the NSA the soil was poor, and the family struggled to survive. Despite later alterations, the farm of Mount Oliphant retains its courtyard arrangement.

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