26 Kirkgate, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Cottage.
26 Kirkgate, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- stark-rubblework-barley
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 321 387
- Coordinates
- 55.61364, -4.66661
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Kirkgate in Irvine is likely an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay cottage. The building is constructed of rubble stone, with a harled finish on the front and side, and painted at the rear. It features a base course.
On the south elevation, there is a doorway with a reeded surround located off-centre to the right, flanked by two bays. The windows have painted cement margins, with the first-floor windows being smaller than those on the ground floor.
The east elevation has a blank gable end, and the returns serve as buttresses reaching up to the eaves height. The north elevation has openings only at the ground floor, with a lean-to structure on the right side. The west elevation is attached to a neighboring house.
The front of the cottage has timber four-pane sash windows, and it is topped with a dark grey slate roof. There is a later brick chimney situated at the ridge of the separating wall.
The interior was not seen as of 1996. The boundary walls include a later wall to the east that is flush with the gable end, rubble stone to the north (rear), and a lean-to and outbuilding.
Local climate
26 Kirkgate, 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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