Council Office, 17, 19 Knockcushan Street, Girvan is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1980. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
Council Office, 17, 19 Knockcushan Street, Girvan
- WRENN ID
- young-chimney-weasel
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- Council Office, 17, 19 Knockcushan Street, Girvan, KA26 9AG
- OS grid reference
- NX 184 980
- Coordinates
- 55.24316, -4.85694
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 17 and 19 Knockcushan Street in Girvan is a later 19th-century Italianate council office, originally constructed for the West Cumberland Farmers Association. It is two storeys high and consists of 11 bays. The exterior is made of red sandstone, featuring channelled outer pilaster strips and a central shallow advanced bay.
A central depressed archway leads to the rear of the building, topped with a cornice, and there are semi-circular headed lights above a Venetian window in the first floor, which has panelled aprons below the window. The flanking bays on each storey have single light windows with simply moulded architraves and bracketed cills, although the ground floor on the right has been altered. The first floor has central windows set in recessed bays with moulded aprons. The building is finished with a corbelled cornice and a blocking course that features a central pediment with a finial. The roof is slate.
Local climate
Council Office, 17, 19 Knockcushan 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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