Sugar Warehouse, James Watt Dock, East Hamilton Street, Greenock is a Grade A listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1976. Warehouse. 4 related planning applications.
Sugar Warehouse, James Watt Dock, East Hamilton Street, Greenock
- WRENN ID
- eternal-spindle-indigo
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1976
- Type
- Warehouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 298 755
- Coordinates
- 55.94257, -4.72634
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sugar Warehouse at James Watt Dock on East Hamilton Street in Greenock was built around 1885. It is a long warehouse featuring a high first storey, constructed of red brick with yellow brick detailing in the form of arches, pilaster-strips, and window-margins.
At the west end, there is a 4-storey and loft block that is 7 bays wide, with the bays separated by pilaster-strips. The central bay includes doors at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels, with a hoist positioned above. To the east of this block is a 2-storey range that has 18 bays, where the windows are arranged in recessed arches in 9 pairs, each pair topped with a gable that contains a circular window.
Further east, there is another 4-storey block that is also 7 bays wide, followed by a 2-storey range that is 22 bays wide, with windows grouped in 11 pairs, and the eastern end featuring 6 recessed arches. The gable ends of the 4-storey blocks are adorned with 8 stepped recessed arches.
Local climate
Sugar Warehouse, James Watt Dock, East Hamilton Street, Greenock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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 0.3°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 — 4 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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