Lodge, Ladykirk House is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1993. Lodge.

Lodge, Ladykirk House

WRENN ID
empty-garret-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 August 1993
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NS 387 262
Coordinates
55.50296, -4.55469
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Lodge at Ladykirk House, designed by James and Robert Samson Ingram in 1903, is a single-storey building with an irregular three-bay plan, reflecting a simplified style similar to that of Ladykirk House. It is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone, featuring ashlar dressings, a base course, long and short quoins, chamfered reveals, crowstepped gables, and gun-loop ventilators at the gableheads.

The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a moulded doorway in the central bay with a panelled two-leaf door topped by a letterbox fanlight. There is a window in the flanking bay to the left, and a slightly advanced gabled bay to the right that features a corniced rectangular-tripartite window with single panes on the left and right returns.

On the north elevation, there is a window in the left bay, and a slightly advanced gable to the right bay with a window in the centre. The west elevation has a door in the central bay, with a gabled bay to the left that includes two windows, while the right side has a blank gable. The south elevation features a window in the left bay and a slightly advanced gabled bay to the right with a window in the centre.

The lodge has two-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof adorned with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. A coped sandstone ridge stack with circular cans and cast iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

Additionally, there are gates, gatepiers, and adjoining walls that include four V-jointed sandstone ashlar gatepiers with a base course, cornicing, and spherical finial caps (one finial is broken and on site). There are three decorative painted timber gates and coped bull-faced rubble walls extending to the policy walls.

Local climate

Lodge, Ladykirk House 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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