Registrar's Office, 20 Bank Street, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Office building. 1 related planning application.
Registrar's Office, 20 Bank Street, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- muted-buttress-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Registrar's Office, 20 Bank Street, Irvine, KA12 0AD
- OS grid reference
- NS 322 389
- Coordinates
- 55.61511, -4.66558
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Registrar's Office, located at 20 Bank Street in Irvine, is a two-storey, three-bay office building constructed in 1905. It features a Free Style design that blends Baroque and Jacobean elements. The exterior is made of red sandstone ashlar, which is squared and snecked on the sides and rear. Notable architectural details include a deep base course, lugged, architraved window surrounds, and a dividing cornice along with an eaves cornice topped with a parapet that has strapwork carving and corniced dies.
The central bay on the ground floor has four windows, each with keystones and banded architraves that connect them. The outer bays contain round-arched doorways sheltered by segmentally pedimented ashlar canopies, which have panelled soffits supported by deep scrolled ashlar brackets. Above the entrances are monogrammed shields, with "IPC" on the left and "1905" on the right, along with foliate carvings. The doors are panelled, featuring multi-pane upper sections and small-pane fanlights.
On the first floor, there is a bowed oriel window supported by corbelled scrolled brackets in the center, flanked by pilasters with stylised composite capitals that frame the bipartite windows of the outer bays. The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass lower sashes and nine-pane upper sections. The roof is covered with grey-green slates and clay ridge tiles, and there are corniced ashlar stacks with terracotta cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
Registrar's Office, 20 Bank Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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