Child Guidance Centre, 3 Melville Terrace, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Cultural center. 4 related planning applications.
Child Guidance Centre, 3 Melville Terrace, Stirling
- WRENN ID
- veiled-chancel-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Cultural center
- Address
- Child Guidance Centre, 3 Melville Terrace, Stirling, FK8 2ND
- OS grid reference
- NS 795 930
- Coordinates
- 56.11471, -3.93846
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Child Guidance Centre, located at 3 Melville Terrace in Stirling, is an early 19th-century building that features two storeys and a basement. It has a three-window facade made of whin ashlar with painted margins. The entrance is highlighted by a Roman Doric columned doorpiece, which includes an elaborate frieze and a fanlight. The basement is harled, and the building has a main cornice and a blocking course, topped with a slated roof. There is also a pedimented single-storey wing attached to the structure.
Local climate
Child Guidance Centre, 3 Melville Terrace, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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 — 4 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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