39 Tower Drive, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. Villa. 4 related planning applications.

39 Tower Drive, Gourock

WRENN ID
gentle-corridor-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1994
Type
Villa
Address
39 Tower Drive, Gourock, PA19 1LG
OS grid reference
NS 236 769
Coordinates
55.95347, -4.82626
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

39 Tower Drive is a two-storey asymmetrical villa built around 1910, featuring Art Nouveau details and currently subdivided. The exterior is finished with white harl and cream sandstone dressings, and the building has a battered base to the bays, ashlar mullions, and overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

The west elevation has three bays, with a canted corner bay on the outer left that includes tripartite windows and a finialled pyramidal roof. There is a Mackintosh-inspired floral motif on the apron of the first-floor windows. The centre bay has two windows, while the outer right bay features a canted window on the ground floor and bipartite windows above.

On the south elevation, the slightly advanced centre bay contains a doorway that is mostly obscured by a modern garage extension. Above the doorway are two narrow windows and the floral motif mentioned earlier, along with two wallhead stacks.

The north elevation has a lower two-storey projection with side lights and a prominent harled dog-leg forestair, which is a later addition leading to the doorway. Above this is a segmental-arched tripartite window with stained glass, along with a wallhead stack.

The villa features timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes on the first floor, while the ground floor has modern replacement windows. The roof is piended and platformed with a bellcast slate covering and metal flashings, and there are three wallhead stacks.

The boundary walls consist of a stepped harled wall topped with flat sandstone coping.

Local climate

39 Tower Drive, 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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