Inchgower House, 16 Shore Road, Skelmorlie is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 June 1990. 4 related planning applications.
Inchgower House, 16 Shore Road, Skelmorlie
- WRENN ID
- upper-storey-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1990
- OS grid reference
- NS 193 676
- Coordinates
- 55.86808, -4.88915
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inchgower House is a two-story villa dating to circa 1850, situated on a west-facing raised terrace overlooking the sea in Skelmorlie. The house was built with squared and coursed, pinned sandstone, featuring ashlar dressings.
The west elevation has a central doorway with glazed upper panels and a strip fanlight, with a single window above at the first floor. A canted bay is located to the left, with a gablehead which breaks the eaves at the first floor. A large, advanced bow extends to the right, incorporating three windows on each floor, and topped with a conical roof clad in fish-scale slates.
A porch is positioned to the south, boasting a round-headed window on its return and a pyramidal roof with swept eaves. A single-storey, two-bay recessed service wing extends to the north, with bipartited windows.
The windows are plate glass sashes. Architectural details include overhanging eaves supported by brackets, grey slates, and coped ashlar stacks.
A bowed addition, constructed circa 1870 in the style of William Leiper, has been added to the west. Stone steps lead down to a terraced garden, enclosed by an ashlar coped squared rubble retaining wall.
Local climate
Inchgower House, 16 Shore Road, Skelmorlie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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