Moorlea, Moorfield Road, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. Cottage.
Moorlea, Moorfield Road, Gourock
- WRENN ID
- scarred-screen-elm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 232 769
- Coordinates
- 55.95331, -4.83215
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Moorlea is a cottage built in the later part of the 19th century, located on Moorfield Road in Gourock. It is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a lean-to addition on the west side and a modern conservatory on the east. The front is made of red sandstone with an ashlar finish, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked stugged rubble. The building features chamfered reveals, overhanging eaves with scalloped bargeboards, and exposed rafters, along with ashlar mullions.
The north elevation, or front, has a pilastered and corniced doorway at the center, which includes a deep-set panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. To the left is a canted window, and to the right is a corniced bipartite window. The outer bays have canted dormers with piended roofs, while the center features a round-arched leaded dormer.
On the south elevation, or rear, there is a small piend-roofed extension at the center and two piend-roofed dormers with replacement glazing. The east elevation is gabled and includes the modern single-storey conservatory. The west elevation is also gabled and has a single-storey lean-to addition. It features timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. The roof is slate with red ridge tiles, and there are two corniced gablehead stacks on the east and west sides, complete with octagonal cans. The eaves have a moulded gutter.
The interior was not seen in 1993. A rubble boundary wall is present at the front of the property.
Local climate
Moorlea, Moorfield 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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