Town Buildings, Fore Street, Port Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1971. Municipal buildings. 8 related planning applications.

Town Buildings, Fore Street, Port Glasgow

WRENN ID
tilted-pinnacle-mint
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Type
Municipal buildings
OS grid reference
NS 322 745
Coordinates
55.93473, -4.68751
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town Buildings on Fore Street in Port Glasgow is a two-storey structure made of ashlar stone, designed in a classical style. It features a tetrastyle portico with Doric columns and is topped by a 150-foot spire. The building was designed by architect David Hamilton and completed in 1815.

Local climate

Town Buildings, Fore Street, Port Glasgow 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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