King's Arms Hotel, 113-115 High Street, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. Coaching inn. 3 related planning applications.
King's Arms Hotel, 113-115 High Street, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- rough-sill-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1980
- Type
- Coaching inn
- Address
- King's Arms Hotel, 113-115 High Street, Irvine, KA12 8AA
- OS grid reference
- NS 320 389
- Coordinates
- 55.61495, -4.66784
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The King's Arms Hotel, located at 113-115 High Street in Irvine, is an early 19th-century coaching inn that was raised to three stories in the mid-19th century. The building features a three-bay design with additional structures at the rear lining the close. It is rendered with painted margins and quoins, and has a base course, a dividing lintel band at the first floor, an eaves band, a cornice, and a blocking course.
On the High Street elevation, there are broad, block corniced doorpieces at the outer bays, with a window off-centre to the right and a smaller window flanking to the left. The first floor has three windows located in the outer bays and off-centre right, while the second floor has three regularly placed windows.
The south elevation features a broad gable to the right with windows to the left, and two-storey buildings that are early but altered, which are part of the hotel, running to the left.
The rear elevation includes a bowed stair tower with a conical roof that is partially glazed, situated to the left of centre, with additional windows to the left and a gabled bay to the right. There are further single-storey buildings at ground level to the left and two-storey structures to the right.
The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane glazing patterns, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building has broad gablehead stacks with a full complement of cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
King's Arms Hotel, 113-115 High Street, Irvine sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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