A creamwashed farmhouse and projecting byres form a compact courtyard group beside the main road east of New Cumnock.
Quick facts
- Date
- Eighteenth or early nineteenth century; exact date not stated
- Architect / designer
- Designer not identified
- Type
- Courtyard farm with central farmhouse and projecting byres
- Designation
- Listed building, Category C (LB14250)
- OS grid reference
- NS 63534 13207
Architecture and continuing use
The two-storey dwelling occupies the centre of the composition, while lower limewashed byres project to enclose a working court. Its plain massing and roadside position are characteristic of an established Ayrshire farmstead.
Its story
Historic forms of the Polquhirter name reach back to seventeenth-century mapping. East Polquhirter appears in early nineteenth-century records and the 1855–57 Ordnance Survey Name Book described it as a farmhouse; later valuation rolls record changing owners and tenants.
Why it is included
The group provides a modest but legible agricultural counterpart to the town’s civic and ecclesiastical buildings and preserves an old landscape name.
What to notice
- The central two-storey farmhouse.
- Projecting gabled byres around the court.
- The relationship between the group, road and Polquhirter Burn landscape.
Reading the surroundings
Treat the entire group as private property. View only from legal public routes, do not enter drives or working yards, and avoid obstructing road traffic.
Timeline
- 1654 Blaeu’s map recorded early Polquhirter place-name forms.
- 1806 The earliest local occurrence so far found for East Polquhirter appeared in a baptism record.
- 1855–57 The Ordnance Survey Name Book described the property as a farmhouse.
- 6 November 1979 The courtyard farm was listed at Category C.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
The designation supplies no construction date or present internal condition, and a current farming operation cannot be confirmed from public evidence alone.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: East Polquhirter Farm, LB14250 — Current designation status, official mapped location, date, fabric and significance.
- New Cumnock History: Polquhirter — Documentary place-name, ownership and recent external evidence for East Polquhirter.
- Trove: East Polquhirter search — National collection search for mapped and archival evidence.
Location
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