45 Townhead, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House.
45 Townhead, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- seventh-tallow-bittern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 323 387
- Coordinates
- 55.61352, -4.66271
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
45 Townhead is an early 19th-century, two-storey house with a basement and a three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is harled and rendered, featuring ashlar dressings, a base course, eaves, and a low blocking course.
On the north elevation, there are double flight steps leading to a central entrance door located on the raised principal floor. The doorpiece includes a consoled cornice and a four-pane fanlight with rounded lights. Flanking windows have ashlar cills and plain margins, while the first-floor windows are smaller.
The east elevation has a blind gable end, as the neighboring property at 43 Townhead is built against it at ground level. This elevation is also rendered.
The west elevation shows that the gable ends of 45 and 47 Townhead are now connected by a bridging extension, with a passageway at ground level. The house features 12-pane timber sash windows, a shallow pitch roof covered in grey slate, skews, skewputts, and broad gablehead stacks.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.
Local climate
45 Townhead, 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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