1,317 protected sites
Most of these are listed buildings, and most listed buildings are private homes, terraces, walls and milestones rather than places to visit. The scheduled monuments are the older layer: earthworks, ruins, barrows and the remains of things that have no roof left.
- Listed buildings
- 1,253
- Scheduled monuments
- 57
- Parks and gardens
- 7
Counted from Historic Environment Scotland's records on 26 September 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of Ayr.
7 properties you can visit
Run by National Trust for Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above.
- Robert Burns Birthplace MuseumNational Trust for Scotland · Alloway
- Bachelors' Club, TarboltonNational Trust for Scotland · Tarbolton
- Maybole Collegiate ChurchHistoric Environment Scotland · Maybole
- Dundonald CastleHistoric Environment Scotland · Dundonald
- Crossraguel AbbeyHistoric Environment Scotland · Maybole
- Culzean Castle & Country ParkNational Trust for Scotland · Kirkoswald
- Souter Johnnie's CottageNational Trust for Scotland · Kirkoswald
See all of it on one map
Visit History draws every site above on a single map, so you are not checking seven organisations one at a time. It also carries the Environment Agency LiDAR survey, which shows the shape of the ground itself, and six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 onwards. Earthworks that are invisible on the ground and unmarked on modern maps are often obvious on both.