Ivy House, London Road, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Townhouse.
Ivy House, London Road, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- dusk-ember-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Townhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 063 606
- Coordinates
- 54.90306, -5.02157
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ivy House is a late 18th century townhouse located on London Road in Stranraer, currently functioning as a restaurant. The building is two stories high with an attic and features a symmetrical rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior is finished in painted render, with painted rubble on the sides and protruding cills.
The northern entrance elevation has a double forestair leading to the entrance, which is covered by a modern canopy. It includes an aluminium door and a single window on the first floor, topped with a ball finialled pediment that has a recessed roundel within it. The ground floor features flanking Palladian windows, while the first floor has single windows. The attic is adorned with gabled finialled dormers that contain round-arched windows.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes on the ground and first floors and 4 panes in the dormers, which date from the 19th century. The roof is covered in grey slate and includes stone skews, scrolled skewputts, broad gablehead coped stacks, and circular cans. The building also has prominent fire escapes.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Ivy House, London Road, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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