2, 4, 6 Bank Street, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Tenement.

2, 4, 6 Bank Street, Irvine

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1997
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NS 321 389
Coordinates
55.61483, -4.66645
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2, 4, 6 Bank Street in Irvine is a late 19th-century, three-storey corner tenement featuring a tower and a mix of Tudor, castellated, and Baronial architectural details, with a shop at the ground level. The building is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked stone, accented with ashlar dressings. It has a cornice above the ground floor and a partially crenellated wallhead, along with hoodmoulds. The gableheads are crowstepped and include blind cross gunloop motifs, with ashlar gablehead stacks topped with billeted coping.

On the Bank Street elevation, there is a modern shop at the ground level. The first and second floors have five bays arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern, with chimneyhead gables over the outer two bays on each side. There is a later addition of a porch on the outer left at ground level, made of ashlar and featuring a door flanked by pilasters with obelisk finials.

The tower at the corner is bowed and extends through the first and second floors, featuring three-light windows and moulded courses. It has a deeply corbelled cornice and a profiled gutter, topped with a candlesnuffer roof that has fishscale bands and a lead ball finial.

On the High Street elevation, there are three bays, with a gabled bay above single windows at the center, detailed similarly to those above. The flanking bays contain stone mullioned bipartite windows.

The building has timber windows with sash and case designs on the second floor, some featuring small-pane upper sashes, while the first floor has casements with leaded upper panes over timber transoms. Decorative rainwater hoppers shaped like winged beasts are present, and the roof is covered with grey-green slate, featuring billeted coping on the stacks and red terracotta cans.

Local climate

2, 4, 6 Bank 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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