5-7 Clarence Street, Greenock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1991. Warehouse.

5-7 Clarence Street, Greenock

WRENN ID
dark-crypt-lake
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 September 1991
Type
Warehouse
OS grid reference
NS 277 767
Coordinates
55.95247, -4.76083
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5-7 Clarence Street in Greenock is a large tobacco bond building from the later 19th century. It features a five-storey block with ten bays across and six bays deep, showcasing a quadruple-gabled front facing Clarence Street. The structure is made of red brick, accented with contrasting yellow brick dressings. The ground floor has blocked or blind round-arched openings set within large rectangular panels, along with some barred segmental arched lights. Above the ground floor, the bays are divided by giant pilaster strips, with wide rectangular openings on the first floor and segmental arched windows above. Most of the original small-paned windows have been preserved. The building also has decorative blocked eaves and an oculus in each gable, topped with slated roofs.

Local climate

5-7 Clarence Street, Greenock 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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