68-70 Princes Street, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Terrace.

68-70 Princes Street, Ardrossan

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Terrace
Address
68-70 Princes Street, Ardrossan, KA22 8DF
OS grid reference
NS 229 420
Coordinates
55.63958, -4.81385
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

68-70 Princes Street in Ardrossan is a mid-19th century two-storey terrace building that follows the original layout designed for Lord Eglinton by architect Peter Nicholson in 1806. Each block features four windows and is constructed from painted ashlar. Some ground floor pilasters are still visible. The first floor windows have a cill course, with the windows at 46-58 having architraves, while those at 60-70 include margins. The building is topped with a cornice, blocking course, straight skews, end stacks, and a slate roof. Notably, 68-70 has a panelled parapet.

Local climate

68-70 Princes Street, Ardrossan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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