156-158 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. 2 related planning applications.
156-158 High Street, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- stark-casement-lichen
- 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
- 156-158 High Street, Irvine, KA12 8AN
- OS grid reference
- NS 321 390
- Coordinates
- 55.61585, -4.66754
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
156-158 High Street in Irvine is an early 19th-century, two-storey, two-bay tenement building that features a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar with raised margins, and it has a cornice and blocking course. The tenement door is located to the right on the ground floor, with a modern shop window that is canted in towards the centre and left. On the first floor, there are two regularly placed windows, and above them are canted dormers with slate hanging and piend roofs.
The windows are timber sash and case style, featuring small-pane and plate glass sashes, while the dormers have metal glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are tall stacks on the mutual gables.
Local climate
156-158 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 — 2 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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