Lady Cathcart's House

This, snapped in the teeth of today's gale, is Lady Cathcart's House, one of the oldest secular buildings in the mediaeval Royal Burgh of Ayr and now among the rarest in Scotland. It was remodelled in the 18th century, when it is said to have been owned by Lord Elias Cathcart, after whose wife it is named. John Loudon Macadam, the famous road engineer, was born here in 1756.

Worth being storm-bound to see!