Swinlees is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1980. Country house.
Swinlees
- WRENN ID
- muffled-sandstone-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1980
- Type
- Country house
- OS grid reference
- NS 294 527
- Coordinates
- 55.73793, -4.71818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Swinlees is a country house that underwent three main phases of construction, particularly in 1857 and 1865, when an older house was converted into an asymmetrical, two-storey, 'T'-plan Scots Baronial style. The building features stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The main entrance is located at the south-west, showcasing roll moulded architraves and a decorative panel above, along with a small corbelled bartizan at the right angle. To the left, there is a tower in the re-entrant angle, topped with a conical roof covered in banded fish-scale slates, and an advanced bay. There is a recessed bay on the left with a later porch. The windows are mainly mullioned, featuring hood-moulds or cornices. All gables are crowstepped, with some adorned with ball finials, and the roof is slate.
Local climate
Swinlees 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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