26 Royal Street, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. House. 2 related planning applications.
26 Royal Street, Gourock
- WRENN ID
- eternal-foundation-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26 Royal Street, Gourock, PA19 1PW
- OS grid reference
- NS 242 775
- Coordinates
- 55.95912, -4.8165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Royal Street in Gourock is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house featuring a chamfered corner on the northeast side. The front facade is constructed of variegated sandstone with coursed and squared stugged rubble, accented by polished and droved dressings, while the rear and sides are made of coursed rubble. The building includes quoin strips, raised margins, and an eaves band.
On the southwest (front) elevation, the windows are regularly spaced. The central entrance has a pedimented doorway supported by plain corbels, featuring a two-leaf door and a plate glass fanlight, with a narrow later window to the left. The north (John Street) elevation is mostly blank, except for a chamfered bay on the outer right that mirrors the detailing of the front, containing two windows. The southeast elevation has a gabled roof and a window on the outer right, which is blocked at the first floor. The northeast (rear) elevation includes a workshop extension and two windows.
The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a slate roof with metal flashings, topped by a gablehead stack on the southeast side. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
26 Royal Street, Gourock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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