25, 27 Kempock Place, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. Commercial building.

25, 27 Kempock Place, Gourock

WRENN ID
small-glass-dale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1994
Type
Commercial building
Address
25, 27 Kempock Place, Gourock, PA19 1QU
OS grid reference
NS 241 778
Coordinates
55.96153, -4.81841
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25 and 27 Kempock Place in Gourock is an early 20th-century, three-storey, three-bay commercial building designed in the Free Renaissance style. The front is made of red sandstone ashlar, while the rear and sides are constructed from red brick with some sandstone dressings. Notable features include bracketed band cill courses on the first and second floors, an eaves cornice topped with a tall ashlar parapet, and ornamental carved end dies. The ground floor has angle pilasters with decorative carvings on the capitals, and the windows are mullioned and transomed with boldly rounded edges.

On the east elevation, there is a modern restaurant front at the ground floor. The central bay above is slightly advanced and features shallow angle pilasters and bipartite windows. The dormer head breaks the parapet and includes a squat bipartite window with a semicircular cornice and a lugged pediment that holds a monogrammed and carved cartouche. The outer bays have quadripartite windows.

The north elevation has windows on the right side, and the parapet is finished with an ashlar wallhead stack. The west (rear) elevation features a quadripartite stair window in the center and bipartite windows in the outer bays. Modern replacement windows have been installed throughout. The roof is piended and covered with interlocking concrete tiles, complete with iron finials at the front and a wallhead stack on the west side. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

25, 27 Kempock Place, 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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