Stable Block, Giffen House is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1980. Stable block. 1 related planning application.
Stable Block, Giffen House
- WRENN ID
- half-mortar-merlin
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1980
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block, Giffen House, KA24 4HQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 340 496
- Coordinates
- 55.71177, -4.64259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stable block at Giffen House, built around 1869, is a single-storey and attic structure arranged in a 'U' shape. It features sneaked and stugged ashlar stonework with ashlar dressings. The entrance to the walled courtyard is marked by gatepiers that have bold caps. Inside the yard, there are two segmental-headed carriage entrances, which have modern glazing, located in the block opposite the gate, along with a door and window to the left. A round stair tower with a conical roof topped with a finial and covered in fish-scale slating is positioned at the right angle. The flanking wings have altered window arrangements. The gables include two ground floor windows and segmental-headed loft entrances that have been altered, featuring re-used cast-iron balconies. The structure also showcases crow-stepped gables and dormer-heads throughout, all under a slate roof.
Local climate
Stable Block, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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