Glaisnock Home and the previous Dunaskin Heritage Centre had been two high-profile derelict buildings which required emergency work over the past 12 months.
They had been amongst 21 harmful constructing notices served by East Ayrshire Council between April 2021 and March 2022.
The notices require house owners to take motion to make sure the buildings are secure when they're deemed to have ‘failed of their obligation’ to fulfil their duties.
Native authority chiefs needed to step in to make properties secure 15 occasions, stating it'll search to get well prices from the house owners in query.
The B-listed Glaisnock Home, close to Cumnock, fell into disrepair after the final proprietor, Xu Yaang, died from a mind tumour in 2015 having purchased it the earlier 12 months amid plans to create a Chinese language language centre.
Inbuilt 1833, the property was purchased by the county council in 1949 and operated as a faculty till 1973. The council has talked in regards to the attainable ‘acquisition’ of the constructing for future restoration.
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A report back to the governance and scrutiny committee states: “Glaisnock Home has been topic to neglect over a interval of a few years and as such has fallen right into a severe state of disrepair additionally it is topic to repeated acts of vandalism and arson assaults.
“East Ayrshire Council have obtained quite a few complaints relating to the situation of the constructing each externally and internally.”
With the possession in limbo, the council needed to perform emergency works to make the constructing secure and inaccessible.
The report continues: “The constructing is a Grade B-listed constructing and in addition holds vital native curiosity. The possession of the constructing lies inside overseas jurisdiction and though efforts have been made to aim to have interaction with them this has not confirmed to achieve success."
The previous Dunsakin Heritage Centre in Patna, the Doon Valley, has additionally fallen into severe disrepair and suffered repeated vandalism. Like Glaisnock Home, the council was pressured to hold out emergency works.
The report states: “The location contains the stays of the ironworks, related buildings and buildings has been classed as a scheduled monument by Historic Setting Scotland. It's due to this fact not solely of serious native curiosity however of nationwide significance.”
A home in Redree Place, New Cumnock, was one other distinguished case, after it was extensively broken by hearth final November.
The report acknowledged: “As a result of problems, the proprietor and their insurer had been unable to verify whether or not they had been capable of undertake the suitable emergency remedial works to make the constructing secure and safe the positioning.”
The council made the exterior partitions secure and was capable of get well the prices.
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