Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Hotel
Address
Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin, IV30 1AL
OS grid reference
NJ 211 627
Coordinates
57.64784, -3.3228
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ladyhill House Hotel, located on Hill Street in Elgin, was built in 1811 with additions made in 1853 by Thomas Mackenzie and further alterations in 1908 by A Marshall Mackenzie. The building is harled and whitewashed, featuring an original structure that consists of two storeys and an attic over a raised basement, with three bays and a central door that is now obscured by a later glazed loggia.

On either side of the central section are later flanking bowed bays that rise to full height and have semi-conical roofs. To the east gable, there is a single-storey wing with a bowed bay that contains three small round-headed windows and a semi-conical roof, along with a deep loggia designed in the Elgin "piazza" style. This loggia incorporates various reused architectural elements such as pediments, pillars, and marriage stones from 17th-century Elgin houses.

The 1853 addition includes a neo-Romanesque porch on the northwest side, which features a heavily moulded and vaulted interior. The building has corniced end stacks, crowstepped gables, and slate roofs. Surrounding the property are high rubble garden walls, with a lintel dating back to 1623 incorporated over the garden entrance on Hill Terrace.

Local climate

Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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