Giffen House is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Giffen House
- WRENN ID
- tired-hinge-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Giffen House, KA24 4HQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 343 496
- Coordinates
- 55.71207, -4.63853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Giffen House is a Scottish Baronial style building designed by architect Andrew Heiton Jnr and dated 1869. It is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The entrance elevation features two storeys over a raised basement and has an asymmetrical design. To the left, there is a door set in an advanced crow-stepped gabled bay, which has a roll moulded architrave and an angled head. Above the door, there are initials in a panel, with a rope-patterned string extending over small side lights. The first floor has a canted oriel window, and there is a tower located in the re-entrant angle, along with a corbelled bartizan on the south side.
The south-east garden elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring outer advanced canted bays that are corbelled above the ground floor. The angles are detailed to resemble turrets, each topped with conical caps. A heavily bracketed balcony is present above the recessed ground floor windows. The tall tower on the north-east elevation adds to the building's character. The windows are primarily of the mullion and transom type, with those on the first floor having steeply gabled heads. All gabled bays are crowstepped, and the slate roof is adorned with fish-scale turrets.
Local climate
Giffen House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 application
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