Seafield House, 86 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. House.
Seafield House, 86 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan
- WRENN ID
- tattered-screen-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 228 434
- Coordinates
- 55.65224, -4.81664
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Seafield House, located at 86 Eglinton Road in Ardrossan, is a Scottish Baronial style building originally constructed in 1820 and substantially rebuilt in 1858 by Thomas Gildard, with a tower added at the rear in 1881. The house is two storeys high and features five bays on the south front, constructed from painted stugged ashlar.
The central bay is distinguished by a crowstepped gable, flanked by two bays with decorative wall head gables. The western bay is advanced and also has a crowstepped gable, along with a two-storey, five-light canted bay. The eastern bay projects slightly and includes a corbelled turret in the re-entrant angle, topped with a crowstepped gable.
In the western re-entrant angle, there is a four-storey entrance turret featuring roll-moulded dressings around the door, string courses, narrow windows, and boldly carved arms, crests, and devices. The frieze includes nailhead decoration, and the cornice leads to a conical roof with banded patterns in the slate, topped with a tall weather vane.
The west elevation has three asymmetrical bays, with the northern bay advanced and corbelled above the ground storey, also featuring a crowstepped gable. A tall French mansard tower with an iron balcony is present, and the slate roof covers the stairhall added in 1858.
Local climate
Seafield House, 86 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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