Clova Lodge, 54 Midton Road, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Clova Lodge, 54 Midton Road, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- rooted-forge-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 206
- Coordinates
- 55.45161, -4.63227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clova Lodge is an earlier 19th century villa located at 54 Midton Road in Ayr. This two-storey, three-bay building features an asymmetrical plan and is situated on a corner site. It is constructed of coursed sandstone, with a painted base course, a first-floor cill course, an eaves course, a corniced blocking course, strip quoins, and ironwork on the first-floor balconies.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central square-headed entrance that includes a panelled balcony supported by consoles. The entrance features a timber door and a letterbox fanlight above. There is a single window directly above the entrance on the first floor, along with another panelled balcony on consoles. To the left, there is a corbelled chimney. The right bay contains single windows on both floors, while the left bay has a tripartite window at the ground floor and a single window at the first floor. Additionally, there is a single window in a recessed single-storey section to the outer left.
The south elevation consists of five bays and features a keyblocked, square-headed doorpiece in the penultimate bay on the outer right, which includes a timber door and a letterbox fanlight, with a single window aligned above on the first floor. The adjoining bays to the left have regular fenestration, while the advanced outer bays contain tripartite windows at the ground floor and single windows at the first floor.
The north and east elevations were not visible in 1999. The building has lying-pane glazing and a slate roof, adorned with decorative wallhead stacks and polygonal cans. It also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
The property includes a wall-mounted postbox, painted square-plan gatepiers at the entrances on the west and south, topped with ball finials. A coped boundary wall encloses the site.
Local climate
Clova Lodge, 54 Midton Road, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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 — 3 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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