86, 88 Albert Road, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. Villa.
86, 88 Albert Road, Gourock
- WRENN ID
- final-newel-wren
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 237 775
- Coordinates
- 55.95811, -4.82511
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
86 and 88 Albert Road in Gourock is a mid to late 19th century, reworked and extended villa originally built slightly earlier. This two-storey, four-bay L-plan flatted villa features gothic details. The front is finished in rendered ashlar, while the rear and side are harled. It has a base course, a band eaves course, chamfered reveals around the windows, coped skews, corbelled skewputts with roll-detail, and a quoin strip at the northeast corner.
On the northwest (front) elevation, there is a doorway to the left of centre, leading to a four-centre-arched porch supported by octagonal columns and topped with a crenellated parapet, along with a panelled door and a window above. To the right of centre is an advanced gabled bay featuring kneelers and an ashlar finial, with a two-storey canted window and a blank armorial shield above it. The outer right has a narrower gabled bay with an apex stack and a slightly advanced window at ground floor, while the first floor has a hoodmoulded window with a moulded apron. The outer left bay has regular fenestration.
The northeast elevation has a gabled appearance with windows at the centre and a lower two-storey wing to the outer left that includes a secondary doorway with a bracketed cornice.
The southeast (rear) elevation features a lower two-storey rear wing. It has timber sash and case windows, with four panes at the first floor and modern replacement windows at the ground floor. The original roof is grey slate, while the outer right bay has a purple slate roof with metal flashings, and there is an apex stack.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The front is bordered by a low rubble wall with semi-circular coping, alongside a taller boundary wall.
Local climate
86, 88 Albert Road, 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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