Ladyland House is a Grade A listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980. 4 related planning applications.
Ladyland House
- WRENN ID
- woven-transept-linden
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1980
- Address
- Ladyland House, KA25 7JR
- OS grid reference
- NS 321 578
- Coordinates
- 55.78466, -4.67752
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ladyland House is a classical mansion house built around 1816 by the architect David Hamilton. It is a two-story building with a basement and attic, arranged with three bays. The house is built of rubble with ashlar dressings, and features giant clasping pilasters at all corners. The central doorway has a raised fanlight and two segmentally-headed side lights, approached by steps with a cast-iron railing. A projecting portico supported by two pairs of Roman Doric columns and an entablature provides a grand entrance. A band course runs above the basement, and a cill course defines the ground floor. Decorative glazing patterns are found throughout the windows. The building has a cornice, a blocking course, end stacks, and a low-piended slate roof.
A low, flat-roofed, two-story extension, designed by James Houston in the 20th century, adjoins the original building on the left side, echoing the original style and incorporating a small central door. A large, projecting, canted conservatory fills the rear central bay.
The interior boasts rooms with ornate plaster cornices and elaborately decorated ceilings. Greek key moulding is extensively used around architraves and on ceilings. The staircase has simply detailed cast-iron balusters, and an oval cupola above features Vitruvian scroll decoration at its base and intersecting hanging swag decoration. Several original fireplaces remain. The gatepiers are octagonal, panelled, and topped with ogee moulded corniced caps. Decorative wrought iron gates complete the ensemble. Original plans are held by the owner.
Local climate
Ladyland House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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