Customs House, Dock Road, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Customs House, Dock Road, Ardrossan
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-wicket-dale
- 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
- Customs House, Dock Road, Ardrossan, KA22 8DA
- OS grid reference
- NS 228 420
- Coordinates
- 55.63932, -4.81679
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Customs House on Dock Road in Ardrossan was built between 1840 and 1846. This two-storey, three-bay building was originally used for customs and excise and is designed in a plain classical style on a corner site. The exterior features painted coursed and random rubble, with stone dressings in a contrasting color. The rear elevation is made of coursed red sandstone rubble.
The building has a base course, banded string courses, and a corniced eaves course topped with a low parapet. The principal elevation includes a corniced and pilastered doorway that is partially blocked. On the right side facing Dock Road, there are two bays with a simple pilastered doorpiece, while the left side facing Harbour Road has one bay.
The west (rear) elevation has an advanced gabled bay on the left and two bays on the right, with a later window added to the far right at ground floor level. Most openings have been blocked, but some timber windows remain at the rear. The roofs are bowed, piended, and pitched, covered with grey slates. There is a central coped brick ridge stack with circular clay cans and a coped and rendered gable end stack.
Local climate
Customs House, Dock Road, Ardrossan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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