Mill Knitwear, 47 Main Street, Largs is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Commercial building.

Mill Knitwear, 47 Main Street, Largs

WRENN ID
weathered-oriel-thistle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NS 202 593
Coordinates
55.79408, -4.86847
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mill Knitwear, located at 47 Main Street in Largs, is a building from the mid 19th century. It stands three storeys tall and has three bays. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar, with a modern glass and mosaic ground floor. There is a continuous cornice above the ground floor, and the first-floor windows are framed with architraves that include a cill band and cornicing. The windows feature plate glass sashes.

The building has an eaves course and cornice, with straight skews and end stacks, although the stack on the right side has been partially removed. The roof is slate. Additionally, there are two gable-end bays facing Bellman's Close, which also contain plate glass sashes.

Local climate

Mill Knitwear, 47 Main Street, Largs sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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