Ellenbank, Main Street, Inverkip is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 September 1984. Villa.

Ellenbank, Main Street, Inverkip

WRENN ID
calm-tower-ochre
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 September 1984
Type
Villa
Address
Ellenbank, Main Street, Inverkip, PA16 0AX
OS grid reference
NS 203 719
Coordinates
55.9072, -4.87562
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ellenbank is a picturesque marine villa built around 1840 in the style of David Hamilton. This two-storey building features a basement and has advanced and finialed gables with deeply projecting eaves. Constructed from polished ashlar, it has a roughly T-shaped plan with three bays on the north and south elevations. The westmost bay is advanced and includes a gabled south-facing porch supported by square columns, with round-headed slits flanking a gable window. A French window is located on the north gable. The advanced west gable features a full-height canted two-light window and a bracketted cast-iron balcony on the first floor. The windows throughout have lying-pane glazing, with most ground floor windows adorned with consoled and pedimented cornices. The villa has end and axial stacks with grouped square flues and is topped with a slate roof. The property is enclosed on three sides by a rubble-built garden wall, with a polished ashlar dwarf wall to the north that has a moulded coping and gatepiers.

Local climate

Ellenbank, Main Street, Inverkip sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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