7, 9 Townhead, Kilbirnie is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980.
7, 9 Townhead, Kilbirnie
- WRENN ID
- north-arch-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1980
- OS grid reference
- NS 315 547
- Coordinates
- 55.75669, -4.68659
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century building located at 7 and 9 Townhead, Kilbirnie. It is two storeys high and three bays wide. The facade is constructed of painted ashlar with painted margins. The ground floor features a central doorway, a two-window shopfront with a centre-doored section to the left, and a single sash window to the right. Above, there are three sash windows. The building has an eaves course, a cornice, a blocking course, and a central pediment at the wallhead. Chimneys rise from the ends of the building, and the roof is covered in slate. The statutory address is 7, 9 Townhead, Kilbirnie.
Local climate
7, 9 Townhead, Kilbirnie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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