148 High Street, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
148 High Street, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- sombre-frieze-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 148 High Street, Irvine, KA12 8AH
- OS grid reference
- NS 320 389
- Coordinates
- 55.61552, -4.66761
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
148 High Street in Irvine is a late 18th century, two-storey, two-bay tenement building that features a shop on the ground floor. The structure is made of whinstone rubble, with rendered ashlar on the front. It has a deep base course and an eaves band. The tenement door is located to the right, while the centre and left sections have a tripartite shopfront with a recessed door. The windows above are regularly spaced, with smaller windows on the second floor.
The building has modern glazing and is topped with grey slates. It features two slate-hung canted dormers that have timber 12-pane glazing. The roof has ashlar coped skews and broad brick gablehead stacks.
Local climate
148 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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