Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin, Elgin, Moray

Entry Name: Ladyhill House Hotel, Hill Street, Elgin

Listing Name: Hill Street, Ladyhill House Hotel

Listing Date: 20 August 1981

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371932

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30803

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371932

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: Hotel

Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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).

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