Hill Street, Ladyhill House Hotel, Elgin
Description: Hill Street, Ladyhill House Hotel
Category: B
Date Listed: 20 August 1981
Historic Scotland Building ID: 30803
OS Grid Coordinates: 321144, 862763
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6479, -3.3228
Location: Terrace Hill, Elgin, Moray IV30 1AU
Locality: Elgin
County: Moray
Country: Scotland
Postcode: IV30 1AU
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Listing Text
1811. Additions 1853, Thomas Mackenzie; further
additions, 1908, A Marshall Mackenzie. Harled and
whitewashed. Original house, 2 storeys and attic over
raised basement, 3 bays with centre door (masked by
later glazed loggia). Later flanking bowed bays rising
full height with semi-conical roofs. Single storey wing to
E gable with bowed bay with 3 small round-headed windows and semi-conical roof deep loggia in Elgin "piazza"
style incorporating various reused pediments, pillars,
marriage stones, etc, removed from 17th century Elgin
houses. 1853 neo-Romanesque porch to NW with heavily
moulded and vaulted interior. Corniced end stacks;
crowstepped gables; slate roofs.
High rubble garden walls; lintel of 1623 incorporated over
garden entrance in Hill Terrace.
References:
Robert Young, ANNALS OF THE PARISH AND BURGH OF ELGIN (1879),
J and W Watson, MORAYSHIRE DESCRIBED, (1868), p.144.
H B Mackintosh, ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT, (1914), pp.112, 181,
225.
Notes:
House owned by architect Thomas Mackenzie (died 1854) and
his son, A Marshall Mackenzie, also an architect. Loggia
built to house decorative stone work, square pillars and
pediments from various sources in Elgin including Ritchie's
House, Nos 147-149 High Street, bought and rebuilt by A
Marshall Mackenzie circa 1880. T S Hutchon's map of Elgin,
1855, shows only E bow. Appears on Woods 1822 map as
simple rectangular building.
Former Item 118 (1981 Revised List).
Source: Historic Scotland
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