West Kilbride Railway Station is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 February 1989. Railway station. 4 related planning applications.

West Kilbride Railway Station

WRENN ID
white-tin-jay
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 February 1989
Type
Railway station
Address
West Kilbride Railway Station, KA23 9AY
OS grid reference
NS 208 484
Coordinates
55.69625, -4.8517
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Kilbride Railway Station, likely designed by James Miller around 1900, is a long, single-storey building in the Arts and Crafts style, featuring six irregular bays. The station has a mannered rubble plinth with harled brick above. The platform side is vertically boarded and includes projecting shelter screens and a canopy. The entrance front is asymmetrical, featuring a projecting open gabled porch on the south side with a battered rubble plinth and timber framing above, supported by semi-scrolled double brackets that frame a semi-circular entrance. The building has single and three-light windows, with the latter breaking the wallhead and topped with timber-framed gables. The roof is covered in red tiles and includes a small gablet ventilator and battered stacks with wide curved copes. A short retaining wall with tapering, domed gatepiers connects the station building to a simple ancillary building at the south end of the platform, which shares similar detailing.

Local climate

West Kilbride Railway Station 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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