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Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal, Pilot House, Irvine Harbour

A Category B Listed Building in Irvine, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6057 / 55°36'20"N

Longitude: -4.6941 / 4°41'38"W

OS Eastings: 230386

OS Northings: 637970

OS Grid: NS303379

Mapcode National: GBR 37.MV9N

Mapcode Global: WH2P2.VCXF

Plus Code: 9C7QJ844+79

Entry Name: Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal, Pilot House, Irvine Harbour

Listing Name: Harbour Pilot House

Listing Date: 20 May 1978

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380033

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35449

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Irvine Harbour, Pilot House, Tide Gauge And Automatic Tide Signal

ID on this website: 200380033

Location: Irvine

County: North Ayrshire

Town: Irvine

Electoral Ward: Irvine South

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

1906. 4-storey, square tower, monitoring station. Rubble stone, rendered and lined as ashlar, wallhead cornice.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window to each floor off-set to left, lamp openings with flat hoods to centre 4 cast-iron grilles to right.

N ELEVATION: door at ground floor, windows at 1st-3rd floors off-set to right.

S ELEVATION: door at ground floor, windows at 1st-3rd floors off-set to right.

E ELEVATION: large window at ground floor, horizontal rectangular windows at 1st-3rd floors.

4, 6 and 18-pane windows, roofless design, mast and rigging rising from centre of tower, cast-iron hoppers and downpipes at ground floor to E.

Statement of Interest

Built to house 'Boyd's Automatic System' for indicating the depth of water at the bar, patented by the Harbour Master, Martin Boyd, in 1904.

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