Walled garden, Doggartland House, Dalry is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1980.

Walled garden, Doggartland House, Dalry

WRENN ID
veiled-remnant-fern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 December 1980
OS grid reference
NS 289 503
Coordinates
55.71645, -4.72505
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Doggartland House is a 2-storey, 3-bay asymmetric Italianate villa built around 1874, set within its own grounds and featuring an advanced left bay. The structure is constructed of coursed sandstone with painted ashlar margins and has a deep base course. Some windows are adorned with moulded architraves. The main façade faces east and includes centrally placed steps leading to a segmental-arched, flat-roofed entrance porch supported by capitals with foliate decoration. The entrance door is timber panelled. The advanced bay on the left features canted bay windows on both storeys, while a shallow projecting tripartite window to the right has outer piers and slender inner shafts with foliated capitals. Three upper storey windows are segmental-arched with foliated capital shafts. The building has broad projecting eaves with paired brackets and a simple cornice.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case with plate-glass glazing. The piended platform roof is covered with grey slates and features end chimney stacks with decorative cans.

The interior, as observed in 2016, retains a largely 19th century room layout, including a shallow-tread dog-leg stair with a timber handrail and metal balusters, complete with ball newels. The main public rooms and hall showcase decorative cornicing and ceiling roses.

To the west of the house, there is a brick walled garden with curved coping and openings in the north and east walls. A single span iron bridge located to the south of the house has splayed ends and an elaborately detailed balustrade featuring colonettes and cusped arches. The outer ends of the bridge have stone plinths topped with tall lamp-posts.

At the west northwest entrance, there are two pairs of unusual octagonal painted stone gatepiers, one pair taller than the other, both featuring panelled heads and pagoda-type caps.

Local climate

Walled garden, Doggartland House, Dalry 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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