Woolwich Building Society, Hamilton Street, Girvan is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1980. Building society.
Woolwich Building Society, Hamilton Street, Girvan
- WRENN ID
- mired-spindle-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1980
- Type
- Building society
- OS grid reference
- NX 186 980
- Coordinates
- 55.24333, -4.85376
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Woolwich Building Society, located on Hamilton Street in Girvan, is a mid-19th century building. It is two storeys high and features three bays, with a narrow additional recessed bay on the right. The structure is made of ashlar stone and has a central round-arched, panelled door flanked by pilasters and topped with a keystone, all set beneath a pilastered doorpiece and accessed by seven steps.
The building has a tall plinth and a cill course above the two ground floor bipartite windows, which are adorned with moulded eared architraves and bracketted pediments that feature moulded panels in the frieze. On the first floor, there is a cill course above the windows, which have eared architraves; the outer bays contain bipartite windows, while the central window is a single light with a blind balustrade below.
The eaves course is complemented by a cornice and a balustraded parapet that has a central solid panel. The building features end stacks and a piended slate roof. The return elevation to the east has simple moulded details, with the entrance located in the recessed bay.
Local climate
Woolwich Building Society, Hamilton Street, Girvan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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