General, Duff Street, Girvan is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1980. Cottage.

General, Duff Street, Girvan

WRENN ID
plain-shingle-starling
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 May 1980
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 184 974
Coordinates
55.23773, -4.85646
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, dating from the early 19th century, consists of two pairs of single-storey cottages, each featuring two bays. The cottages are constructed from limewashed rubble. Each pair has central doors flanked by 12-pane sash windows, although two of the windows are now boarded up. There is a stack on the right side, and the cottages are topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

General, Duff 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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