Kirktonhall House, Main Street, West Kilbride is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Kirktonhall House, Main Street, West Kilbride
- WRENN ID
- spare-belfry-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kirktonhall House, Main Street, West Kilbride, KA23 9BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 205 483
- Coordinates
- 55.69487, -4.85744
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirktonhall House is a tall three-storey house located on Main Street in West Kilbride. The building is harled with grey-painted stone dressings and features a battlemented parapet that displays the date 1807. There is another datestone near street level with the initials R.S. and M.W. from 1660. The principal facade faces the garden at the rear and includes a central projecting two-storey porch, which has a Gothic Palladian window on the first floor and a lower stage supported by corner columns. The lintel of the porch is inscribed with "Rebuilt by Frank Ritchie 1791." The house has a long three-window facade, a ridge roof with large Victorian dormers, and plain gables. To the left, there is a lower addition featuring a bay window. Dr. Robert Simpson, known for translating Euclid, was a native of West Kilbride, and his family lived at Kirktonhall for several generations.
Local climate
Kirktonhall House, Main Street, West Kilbride sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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