Museum, 4 Glasgow Vennel, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. Cottage.

Museum, 4 Glasgow Vennel, Irvine

WRENN ID
crumbling-tallow-umber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 1980
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 323 388
Coordinates
55.61416, -4.66291
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a museum located at 4 Glasgow Vennel in Irvine. It dates from the late 18th century and underwent restoration in the late 20th century. The structure is a single-storey, three-bay cottage made of rubble with rendered margins, an eaves course, and a cornice.

At the center, there is a round-arched door with a keystone, impost blocks, and a decorative semicircular fanlight, flanked by widely spaced windows. The entrance features two-leaf boarded doors. To the left, there is a two-light piend-roofed dormer that is slate-hung.

The windows are timber sash and case, with small panes over two-pane sashes. The roof, covered in grey slate, includes flush rooflights and has rendered gablehead stacks.

Local climate

Museum, 4 Glasgow Vennel, 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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