34-36 Cove Road, Gourock is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1994. 4 related planning applications.

34-36 Cove Road, Gourock

WRENN ID
sacred-tin-starling
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1994
Address
34-36 Cove Road, Gourock, PA19 1RP
OS grid reference
NS 248 773
Coordinates
55.95696, -4.80753
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

31-33 Cove Road in Gourock is a group of four double villas built in the later 19th century, featuring classical architectural details and outhouses at the rear. The buildings are constructed from variegated sandstone with an ashlar front and coursed rubble on the rear and sides. They have base courses, a frieze, and an eaves cornice, with pilastered and corniced doorways, except for Nos 37-39, which only have corniced doorways. The windows have ashlar mullions.

The front elevations of Nos 31-33 and 40-42 are symmetrical with five bays and regular fenestration, featuring doorways flanking the central bays, panelled doors, and plate glass fanlights. The outer bays have bipartite windows, and there are canted and rectangular dormers. Nos 34-36 and 37-39 have ground floor bipartite windows in the centre, with doorways flanking and windows positioned off-centre above. The outer bays also have bipartite windows, and canted dormers are present. Nos 34-36 have a rendered front, a large modern box dormer, and a small garage extension on the outer left.

The east and west elevations are gabled with apex stacks and feature some small windows. The rear elevations include curved rubble-built stairs leading to first-floor doorways with decorative iron railings. There are small single-storey piend-roofed outhouses, and the windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, although many have been replaced. The roofs are slate with apex stacks.

The interiors were not seen in 1993. The boundary walls consist of low ashlar walls at the front and taller rubble walls on the sides and rear, featuring semi-circular coping.

Local climate

34-36 Cove 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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