53 Kirkgate, Irvine is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
53 Kirkgate, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gravel-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 321 387
- Coordinates
- 55.61319, -4.66704
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
51 Kirkgate in Irvine is a mid-19th century building that may include some earlier materials. It is a two-storey and attic structure with five bays, arranged in a 3-2 grouping, and forms part of a mid-terrace pair of houses. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, eaves band, and cornice.
The principal elevation on the northeast side is asymmetrical. The entrance to No 51 is recessed and framed by a pilastered and corniced doorpiece on the right, which includes a 3-pane, letterbox fanlight. The central bay has a window on each floor, and the outer left bay has similar window arrangements. The entrance to No 53 is located in the right bay, featuring a door with a small-pane letterbox fanlight above, a blank space above that, and a window on each floor in the left bay.
The building has 18-pane timber sash and case windows, and the piend-roofed dormers are slate-hung with 6-pane windows. The roof is covered with dark grey slates, and there are coped skews. A rubble stack is located at the center, with an ashlar stack to the right and a large brick stack on the left, positioned on the party wall with No 49.
Local climate
53 Kirkgate, Irvine 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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