55 Kirkgate, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House.
55 Kirkgate, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- weathered-kitchen-amber
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 321 387
- Coordinates
- 55.61326, -4.66706
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
55 Kirkgate in Irvine is a mid 19th century, two-storey, two-bay end-of-terrace house located on a corner site, likely incorporating some earlier fabric. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with painted ashlar dressings, an eaves band, a cornice, and quoin strips.
The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, is symmetrical with raised plain margins. The first-floor windows extend into the eaves, set within dormerhead gables.
On the northwest elevation, there is a gable end with a door in a plain surround to the right, a window above it, a blocked window to the left, and a former shop window, possibly. The east elevation features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with dark grey slates and includes coped skews, block skewputts, and gablehead stacks, with one stack located to the south on the party wall.
Local climate
55 Kirkgate, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings