Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal, Pilot House, Irvine Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1978. Monitoring station. 1 related planning application.
Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal, Pilot House, Irvine Harbour
- WRENN ID
- former-dormer-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1978
- Type
- Monitoring station
- OS grid reference
- NS 303 379
- Coordinates
- 55.60569, -4.69405
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tide Gauge and Automatic Tide Signal, located in the Pilot House at Irvine Harbour, is a monitoring station built in 1906. This four-storey, square tower is constructed of rubble stone, rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, and features a wallhead cornice.
On the west elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a window on each floor that is offset to the left, with lamp openings and flat hoods at the center, and four cast-iron grilles to the right. The north elevation has a door at the ground floor, with windows on the first to third floors that are offset to the right. Similarly, the south elevation also features a door at the ground floor and windows on the first to third floors, again offset to the right. The east elevation includes a large window at the ground floor, with horizontal rectangular windows on the first to third floors.
The building has a roofless design, with a mast and rigging rising from the center of the tower. Additionally, there are cast-iron hoppers and downpipes at the ground floor on the east side. The windows vary, featuring 4, 6, and 18 panes.
Local climate
Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal, Pilot House, Irvine Harbour 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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