16-17 Albert Road, Gourock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Flatted villa. 1 related planning application.

16-17 Albert Road, Gourock

WRENN ID
solemn-soffit-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 June 1971
Type
Flatted villa
Address
16-17 Albert Road, Gourock, PA19 1NH
OS grid reference
NS 239 777
Coordinates
55.96046, -4.8219
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

16-17 Albert Road in Gourock is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical flatted villa built in the earlier to mid-19th century, featuring classical architectural details. The front elevation is rendered, while the rear and sides are finished with stugged red ashlar. The building has a base course and architraved windows on the ground floor, which are topped with consoled block pediments. There is an eaves band and a cornice with a blocking course.

On the northwest (front) elevation, there is a central doorpiece supported by Ionic columns, featuring a dentilled cornice and a blocking course above. The first floor has regular fenestration, with windows in the flanking bays.

The southeast (rear) elevation includes a curved rubble-built forestair leading to a central doorway on the first floor, which is adorned with decorative iron railings. There are windows in the flanking bays and a secondary doorway at ground level.

The southwest elevation features a broad wallhead stack at the center, with single windows to the left and in the first floor of the center bay. The building has modern aluminium replacement windows throughout and a piended grey slate roof, with two pairs of linked wallhead stacks on the southwest and northeast sides.

The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

16-17 Albert 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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