10-14 Steel Street, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. 1 related planning application.

10-14 Steel Street, Gourock

WRENN ID
distant-step-russet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1994
Address
10-14 Steel Street, Gourock, PA19 1RR
OS grid reference
NS 249 772
Coordinates
55.95661, -4.8055
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

16 Steel Street in Gourock is a two-storey, six-bay flatted block built around 1900. The building features red sandstone, squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings on the front, while the rear and sides are rendered. A string course runs above the ground floor, with arches and bold keystones over the outer bays and an open pediment above the center. The eaves overhang, revealing exposed rafters, and there are ashlar mullions.

On the front elevation, there are paired doorways to the right of center, which have chip-carving detail on the lintel, with a window above. The second, third, and fifth bays from the left have two-storey canted windows that rest on battered bases and feature shallow finialled roofs. Tall wallhead stacks are positioned at the corners.

The south elevation has a centrally located doorway with a small slated canopy supported by timber brackets that rise from stone corbels, along with flanking windows and a window above. The north elevation mirrors this design.

The rear elevation includes two small rectangular outshoots. There are some timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, although most are replacement windows. The roof is piended with slate and has crested red ridge tiles, featuring two central stacks and two wallhead stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1993. A low stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping is present.

Local climate

10-14 Steel Street, 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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