16 Brook Street, Alva is a Grade C listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 June 2003. House. 3 related planning applications.
16 Brook Street, Alva
- WRENN ID
- woven-cloister-ash
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Clackmannanshire
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 June 2003
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 Brook Street, Alva, FK12 5JL
- OS grid reference
- NS 883 973
- Coordinates
- 56.15599, -3.79902
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Brook Street in Alva is a house that dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is a two-storey building with a wide, three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is constructed from harl-pointed coursed whinstone rubble, featuring raised ashlar margins, stone cills, ashlar rybats, strip quoins, a base course, and an eaves course.
The southeast, or principal elevation, is nearly symmetrical with four bays on the ground floor. There is a low doorway located off-centre to the right, with a window directly to the left and additional windows in the outer bays. On the first floor, three windows are positioned close to the eaves, and there are two cast-iron roof lights.
The northeast elevation features a doorway off-centre to the right and another to the far left, with a first-floor window at the far right. The northwest elevation, which was not visible in 2003, is adjacent to a large former printing works. The southwest elevation includes a one-storey rendered garage that adjoins the house at an angle.
All windows and doorways are boarded up. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates, featuring straight ashlar skews. The interior was not seen in 2003.
Local climate
16 Brook Street, Alva sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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