Caldwell House is a Grade A listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
Caldwell House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-plaster-tarn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- East Renfrewshire MP: Blair McDougall (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Caldwell House, G78 4BE
- OS grid reference
- NS 415 541
- Coordinates
- 55.75485, -4.52706
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caldwell House is a castellated mansion built between 1771 and 1773 by architects Robert and James Adam for Baron Mure of Caldwell, with alterations made in the 20th century. The house is three stories high with a basement and has a symmetrical rectangular plan. The entrance front features five bays and a later wide, projecting porch, while the garden elevation has seven bays and the side elevations have three bays each. There is a later single-storey wing and an additional laundry addition to the northwest. The building has a machicolated and crenellated parapet with distinctive pepper-pot angle bartizans. It is harled with ashlar dressings, including an ashlar porch, and all windows have label moulds, with a band course between the ground and first floors. As of 2003, the house is derelict.
On the northeast (principal) elevation, there are three bays in the center with a porch that has panelled outer angle pilasters, a central door flanked by windows, and round-arched heads on all windows. The crenellated parapet is prominent, with a central bay above featuring double relieving arches and flanking later porthole windows. The outer bays are shallowly recessed with tripartite windows on the ground floor (originally single lights) and first-floor windows in shallow relieving arches, along with small attic windows above all bays.
The southwest (garden) elevation has four storeys and five bays in the center, with recessed outer bays that have later tripartite windows on the ground floor and regular fenestration overall. The northwest and southeast (side) elevations each have three bays with central advanced tripartite bays and later single-storey additions.
Little original glazing remains, as the house originally had 24-pane timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane windows in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slate in a piend and valley style, though it is partially collapsed, and there are ashlar stacks.
Inside, little original detail survives, but there are curved timber panelled hall doors.
Local climate
Caldwell House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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