Bank, 76 Princes Street, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. House.
Bank, 76 Princes Street, Ardrossan
- WRENN ID
- spare-hearth-birch
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 230 420
- Coordinates
- 55.63943, -4.81367
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 76 Princes Street in Ardrossan is a mid-19th century bank that stands three storeys tall. It features two bays facing Princes Street and five bays on Bute Street. The exterior is finished in painted stucco and is adorned with channelled pilasters.
On Princes Street, there is a round-headed door flanked by Roman Doric columns in antis and outer channelled piers to the right. Above the door, there is a cornice with a band course. Each floor has a single light above the door and a bipartite window to the left. The first floor is decorated with cornices and pediments, with the pediments having brackets over the central light of the tripartite window. The main cornice serves as a blocking course and is topped with a parapet that features central urn finials. The architectural details on Bute Street are similar to those on Princes Street.
Local climate
Bank, 76 Princes Street, Ardrossan 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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