Gourock Youth And Community Centre, Binnie Street, Gourock

Gourock Youth and Community Centre is a 2-storey U-plan building designed by John Honeyman, dated 1876, with additions from 1893. It is situated on a slope and features plain gothic details. The structure is constructed from pink sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble and droved and polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, chamfered reveals, ashlar mullions and transoms, coped skews, and roll-detail to skewputts.

The southwest (front) elevation has five bays and is single storey, featuring a central four-pointed-arched doorway and a small bipartite window above, which breaks the eaves in a tall gablehead that includes a hoodmoulded dated roundel. There are bipartite windows in each of the flanking bays.

The northwest (John Street) elevation consists of six bays, with three bays on the left stepped down. The outer right has a broad gabled bay with stepped tripartite lancet windows and a blind roundel in the gablehead. To the right of the center are bipartite windows, with a secondary doorway to the left of center. There is a flanking bay with a bipartite transomed window that breaks the eaves in a finialled gable, and a bipartite window to the outer left.

The southeast elevation features a broad advanced gabled wing on the outer right, which includes an apex stack and stepped tripartite lancet windows. There are bipartite windows and a secondary doorway on the return. The main block has a gabled bay similar to the outer right, with a small flat-roofed entrance porch, and segmental-arched openings at the ground floor in the center bays, with windows above.

The northeast (rear) elevation reveals a courtyard formed by the U-plan, with irregular windows and small single-storey porches and additions. It features small pane timber sash and case windows, a slate roof, and moulded eaves gutter with gutterheads.

The boundary walls consist of low rubble walls with three gatepiers topped with pyramidal coping, and some hoop railings.