Cafe And Restaurant, Nardini Lounge, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Nelson Street, Largs is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1987. Cafe, restaurant.

Cafe And Restaurant, Nardini Lounge, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Nelson Street, Largs

WRENN ID
vast-cinder-yarrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 July 1987
Type
Cafe, restaurant
OS grid reference
NS 202 596
Coordinates
55.79687, -4.86874
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Nardini Lounge, located at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 Nelson Street in Largs, is a large single-storey café and restaurant built in 1935 by C Davidson and Sons. This 1930s modern building occupies a corner site and features a white-rendered framed construction base, with sections of red brick and black granite. It has large windows, and the bays are divided by stepped tall buttresses that support flagpoles. The shop is situated on the canted corner, topped with a parapet and a raised sign, and the roof is concealed. The main entrance to the café is recessed on the Greenock Road elevation, which includes a platform area for outdoor seating. The eastmost wide bay of the south elevation, facing Nelson Street, serves as the front for the restaurant. The interior of the building is important and has remained largely unaltered.

Local climate

Cafe And Restaurant, Nardini Lounge, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Nelson Street, Largs sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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