Old Power House, Ardrossan Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Power house. 2 related planning applications.

Old Power House, Ardrossan Harbour

WRENN ID
plain-finial-poplar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Power house
OS grid reference
NS 227 420
Coordinates
55.63961, -4.81778
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Power House at Ardrossan Harbour is a single-storey building constructed in 1892. It was originally designed to house three boilers that produced hydraulic power for the harbour. The building is made of red engineering brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof topped with a red tile ridge. The side elevations include three round-arched windows. The gable end has a pediment and a square Italianate tower on the right, which originally housed the hydraulic ram. A modern clock is set in a recessed panel, and there is a bracketed cornice along the top.

Local climate

Old Power House, Ardrossan Harbour sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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