18-20 Main Street, Beith is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980.

18-20 Main Street, Beith

WRENN ID
broken-footing-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 December 1980
OS grid reference
NS 349 540
Coordinates
55.75125, -4.63198
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 18-20 Main Street, Beith, is a two-storey range constructed in 1900 and originally built for the Cooperative Society. The architectural style is Italianate. The ground floor shopfronts have been replaced in the late 20th century, however, the original cornice remains above. The building features four key-blocked round-arched windows and two Venetian windows, symmetrically arranged, with a linking string course at their springing point. There is a cornice and parapet, along with two prominent corniced and bracketed wallhead stacks, inscribed with plaques carved 'AD' and '1900'. The exterior is constructed of buff sandstone ashlar.

The rear elevation has been altered and abuts single-storey dwellings on higher ground. The interior has been significantly altered and contains no original features.

The building is situated in a prominent town centre location, and while the ground floor has been altered, the arched first-floor windows and the prominent ashlar chimney stacks retain architectural interest. The building is marked on the 1910 Ordnance Survey map. The statutory address is 16-20 (even numbers) Main Street.

Local climate

18-20 Main Street, Beith sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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