Clyde Estuary Hotel, 78 Princes Street, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

Clyde Estuary Hotel, 78 Princes Street, Ardrossan

WRENN ID
seventh-foundation-heron
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
Hotel
Address
Clyde Estuary Hotel, 78 Princes Street, Ardrossan, KA22 8DF
OS grid reference
NS 230 420
Coordinates
55.63945, -4.8133
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clyde Estuary Hotel, located at 78 Princes Street in Ardrossan, is a mid-19th century building featuring two storeys and an attic. The facade has three bays facing Princes Street and five bays on Bute Street, constructed from painted ashlar. The ground floor is pilastered and includes a modern door on Princes Street, while there is an original pilastered doorpiece on Bute Street. Above the ground floor, there is a cornice, and a cill course marks the first floor, where all windows facing Princes Street have architraves, while those on Bute Street have margins. The building is topped with a main cornice and a parapet, which is adorned with an iron balustrade in front of two canted, piended dormers. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.

Local climate

Clyde Estuary Hotel, 78 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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