Fernbank, 5 Geirston Road, Kilbirnie is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980. 3 related planning applications.
Fernbank, 5 Geirston Road, Kilbirnie
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-corbel-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1980
- Address
- Fernbank, 5 Geirston Road, Kilbirnie, KA25 7LG
- OS grid reference
- NS 306 545
- Coordinates
- 55.75455, -4.6997
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fernbank is a two-storey, asymmetrical Gothic villa dated 1871. It is built of stugged ashlar with polished dressings and rusticated quoins. The southeast entrance front features a projecting central porch with engaged shafts that support a gabled head. Within the porch is a pointed arched doorway with moulded reveals, approached by steps. The right bay has two pointed-headed lights grouped under a pointed arch, with two smaller pointed lights in the wallhead gable. A blind bay is on the left, and to the right is a corbelled turret with a conical roof covered in fish-scale slates. A projecting, single-storey, semi-circular angle window is situated on the left side, featuring pointed lights, with a similar arrangement of lights on a canted, gabled face above. The southwest elevation also exhibits similarly treated windows, as does a shouldered wallhead stack. The building has deeply projecting eaves and a slate roof.
Local climate
Fernbank, 5 Geirston Road, Kilbirnie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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