Steading, Littlestone, Lawthorn, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980.
Steading, Littlestone, Lawthorn, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- graven-balcony-finch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1980
- OS grid reference
- NS 341 408
- Coordinates
- 55.63321, -4.6364
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century group of farm buildings, located at Littlestone, near Lawthorn, Irvine. The layout comprises a courtyard with an isolated outbuilding that forms the south side of the yard. The farmhouse is two storeys high and built of limewashed and painted stucco, featuring skew gables and slate roofs. The front of the farmhouse has three windows facing the yard, with a half-dormer treatment under swept roofs. These windows are grouped as 3 + 2 + 3, with painted margins. A central doorway provides access. Single-storey ranges project forward from the ends of the farmhouse, constructed of painted rubble with large openings facing the yard. A loft opening is visible in the west gable end.
Local climate
Steading, Littlestone, Lawthorn, Irvine 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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