Pitcon is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Pitcon
- WRENN ID
- muted-facade-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 298 506
- Coordinates
- 55.71912, -4.70993
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pitcon is a late 18th century country house that stands two storeys high and features three bays. The building is symmetrical in design, with later additions. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble, highlighted by polished margins and rusticated quoins. The central bay, which is slightly advanced, has a pediment and includes a door flanked by sidelights. Throughout the house, there are 12-pane sash windows, with the window above the door featuring an apron panel. At the rear, a tall 'Y'-traceried pointed-arched stair window rises into a pediment. All elevations have an eaves course and cornice. The house is topped with a piended platform roof and has two symmetrically-placed stacks.
To the left, there is a recessed two-storey, three-bay extension from the early 20th century, built of rubble with ashlar margins and rusticated quoins. This extension features piended wall-head gables above the first-floor windows, along with an eaves course, cornice, and a piended slate roof.
Inside, the house boasts good pine panelling and a curved cantilevered stair. To the east, there is a walled garden that dates back to the late 18th century. The property also contains various inserted datestones and marriage lintels from an earlier house that once occupied the site.
Local climate
Pitcon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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