Mcewing Building Contractors, 98-100 Bearhope, Greenock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 October 1990. Commercial building.

Mcewing Building Contractors, 98-100 Bearhope, Greenock

WRENN ID
twisted-corner-dock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 October 1990
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NS 275 760
Coordinates
55.9462, -4.76387
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Mcewing Building Contractors is a mid-19th century structure that was originally part of a sugar refinery, with related buildings at the corner of St Michael Street now demolished. This building has three storeys plus a loft, is shallow in depth, and features a rectangular plan with a gabled roof. It has a long seven-bay front facing Bearhope Street, constructed from snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof is an alste type. The building displays several glazing patterns, with most openings being segmental-arched and featuring shallow depth windows above ground level. There is a round-arched wide opening to Bearhope Street that has been converted into a window, and a flat-lintelled wide opening to Roxburgh Street that has also been altered. Additionally, the masonry extends eastwards at a single storey level, with a modern first floor added and a fire escape on the east wall.

Local climate

Mcewing Building Contractors, 98-100 Bearhope, 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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