Toll House, Girdle Toll, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Toll House, Girdle Toll, Irvine

WRENN ID
gaunt-corridor-ivy
Grade
C
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 340 404
Coordinates
55.62928, -4.63712
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Toll House at Girdle Toll in Irvine is a single-storey cottage, likely built as a toll house in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is set diagonally at a road junction and features a colourwashed stone front with painted margins and end strips. The roof has oversailing eaves. The building has a central door, with a sash window to the left and a splayed bay to the right. Its layout is T-shaped.

Local climate

Toll House, Girdle Toll, 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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