Cliffside, 2 Birkhill Road, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 February 1978. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.

Cliffside, 2 Birkhill Road, Stirling

WRENN ID
second-storey-wax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 February 1978
Type
Mansion
Address
Cliffside, 2 Birkhill Road, Stirling, FK7 9JS
OS grid reference
NS 783 928
Coordinates
56.11263, -3.95745
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cliffside is a Jacobean mansion house dated 1866, located on Birkhill Road in Stirling. The building is two stories tall and constructed of rubble. The south front features twin straight gables and has two pairs of bipartite windows on the first floor, along with a canted bay and a tripartite window at the ground floor. The east front includes an advanced gabled northern section, with two windows at the ground floor and three on the first floor, and the entrance is located in the southern return frontage. The southern section has one bipartite window and a gabled dormer head on the first floor. Most openings have hood moulds, except for the canted bay, which has a crenellated parapet. The roof is slated, and there are shafted chimneys.

Local climate

Cliffside, 2 Birkhill Road, Stirling sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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