Old Constabulary, 8 Harbour Street, Ardrossan is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. Constabulary. 2 related planning applications.

Old Constabulary, 8 Harbour Street, Ardrossan

WRENN ID
spare-quartz-primrose
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 1980
Type
Constabulary
Address
Old Constabulary, 8 Harbour Street, Ardrossan, KA22 8BS
OS grid reference
NS 228 420
Coordinates
55.63957, -4.81579
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Constabulary, located at 8 Harbour Street in Ardrossan, was built in 1889 and features Scottish Baronial detailing. This two-storey building has four bays and is constructed from snecked and stugged red sandstone, accented with chamfered, polished ashlar margins. The two central bays are recessed and each floor has two windows, with hoodmoulds over the ground floor windows raised above a title panel.

The building is topped with a battlemented parapet, and the end bays have crowstepped gables. The left end bay is corbelled above ground, while the right features a door set in rope moulded reveals topped with a battlemented head. The gable head projects on stepped corbels, and similar architectural details are present on the south elevation, where the end stacks are also corbelled. The roof is piended and covered with slate.

Local climate

Old Constabulary, 8 Harbour Street, 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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