High Williamshaw is a Grade A listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
High Williamshaw
- WRENN ID
- distant-granite-rye
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Williamshaw, KA3 5JR
- OS grid reference
- NS 440 483
- Coordinates
- 55.70321, -4.48395
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
High Williamshaw is a house built around 1771 and extended in 1862. It is a symmetrical, two-storey and attic structure with crow-stepped gables and three bays, complemented by later single-storey wings at the rear, creating a U-shaped courtyard. The design combines classical and traditional elements, featuring painted raised ashlar margins and quoins, as well as a base course, cill course, and eaves course. The gable ends have a single window and a gablehead stack, with small attic windows.
The principal elevation faces south and includes a central Venetian doorpiece with a key-stoned semicircular arch above, leading to a two-leaf timber panelled entrance door with glazed interior doors. The central three-bay section is flanked by two-bay single-storey wings that have false Venetian windows, with the initials TLD on the door lintel to the right.
The rear wings are single-storey and feature slatted timber garage doors, along with various window and door openings. The house predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is roofed with grey slates, topped with coped gablehead stacks.
To the west, there is a single-storey outbuilding made of double-gabled rubble, with a slated roof and pigeon holes on each gable.
Inside, the house was renovated in 1980 but retains much of its original room layout and some original features. This includes a horseshoe staircase with timber balusters and banister, along with some simple original plaster cornicing.
Local climate
High Williamshaw sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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