49 Main Street, Kilbirnie is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980.

49 Main Street, Kilbirnie

WRENN ID
watchful-transept-grove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 December 1980
OS grid reference
NS 315 545
Coordinates
55.75479, -4.68536
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th-century building on Main Street, Kilbirnie, comprising 4 bays and originally two storeys. The facade is of painted ashlar with painted margins. The central bay is recessed, featuring a round-headed doorway with a fanlight and pilastered jambs. Flanking the doorway are windows, and the outer bays contain shop fronts. A pilastered ground floor supports a continuous frieze and cornice. Four sash windows are located on the first floor, set within lugged architraves. The building has an eaves course cornice and a blocking course, topped by a central wall-head pediment containing a panelled stack. End stacks rise from the slate roof. The statutory address covers numbers 49, 51 and 53 Main Street.

Local climate

49 Main Street, Kilbirnie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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