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Bath Street, St John's Church (Church of Scotland) with Hall, Walls, Gatepiers and Lamp StandardsBath Street, St John's Church (Church of Scotland) with Hall, Walls, Gatepiers and Lamp Standards · Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Gourock · Historic Environment Scotland

63 listed buildings, 21 of them in the second category

We have photos of 11 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town. On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Gourock’s locality, 63 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument.

21Category B1scheduled monument6on Ashton Road
Listed buildings
63
63 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
21
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures

Gourock in 16 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Levan Castle (Restored Ruin), Adjoining Castle Levan, Cloch Road, By Gourock.Levan Castle (Restored Ruin), Adjoining Castle Levan, Cloch Road, By Gourock.Category B listedCloch LighthouseCloch LighthouseCategory B listedShore Street, Gamble InstituteShore Street, Gamble InstituteCategory B listedCove Road and Cardwell Road, FountainCove Road and Cardwell Road, FountainCategory C listed16 and 17 Albert Road16 and 17 Albert RoadCategory B listed+11See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Through time

Gourock from 1841 to 1903

4 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Darroch Mausoleum, Gourock Park, Inverclyde. Entrance area1841
VictorianDarroch Mausoleum, Gourock Park, Inverclyde. Entrance areaPhoto: Elvira Anna Phipps. Memorials of Clutha. 1841 · Public domain
'Looking across the Clyde from Gourock, 1843' (Scotland) RMGc. 1843
Victorian'Looking across the Clyde from Gourock, 1843' (Scotland) RMGPhoto: Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe · Public domain
Edward Gennys Fanshawe, Looking across the Clyde from Gourock, 1843 (Scotland)1843
VictorianEdward Gennys Fanshawe, Looking across the Clyde from Gourock, 1843 (Scotland)Photo: Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe · Public domain
Gourock1903
EdwardianGourockPhoto: Unknown photographer · Public domain

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

The map

Where Gourock’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Kempock Stone, Inverkip, scheduled monumentBarrhill Road, St Bartholomew's (Episcopal) Church and Boundary Wall, Category BBath Street, St John's Church (Church of Scotland) with Hall, Walls, Gatepiers and Lamp Standards, Category BBinnie Street, Former Gourock Primary School, Category BCloch Lighthouse, Category BLevan Castle (Restored Ruin), Adjoining Castle Levan, Cloch Road, By Gourock., Category BRoyal Street, Old Gourock and Ashton Parish Church with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BShore Street, Gamble Institute, Category BTower Hill, Tower, Category B114 and 115 Albert Road with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B14, 16 and 18 Victoria Road, Glenacre, With Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B16 and 17 Albert Road, Category B17 and 18 Ashton Road, Category B23 Kempock Place and 2-8 (Even Nos) Bath Street, Category B41, 42 and 43 Ashton Road Whitebank, Category B44-50 (Even Nos) Kempock Street, Category B46-52 (Even Nos) Albert Road with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B50 Ashton Road with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B54, 54A and 55 Ashton Road with Coach House, Category B7 Moorfield Road and 12 Golf Road, Royston, Category B76 and 78 Albert Road with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B80,82 and 84 Albert Road, Category B
Category BScheduled monument

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

63 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A21 Category B42 Category C

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Category B

The 21 Category B listed buildings in Gourock

Buildings of regional importance. 10 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 9
Historic streets

Ashton Road has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Ashton Road6 listed · 1 II*
Albert Road4 listed · 2 II*
16 and 17 Albert Road
Victoria Road3 listed

Of the 63 entries, 41 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Gourock’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas51
Walls, gates & bridges6
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
Public & civic buildings3

51 entries (81%) are houses, terraces and villas.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Category C

42 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 42 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Albert Road, Jubilee Drinking FountainAlbert Road, War MemorialAshburn Gate, Queen's Residential Home for the ElderlyAshton Road, Royal Gourock Yacht Club with Boundary Walls and GatepiersBinnie Street, Gourock Community Education Centre, Former Gourock Central School with Boundary Walls and RailingsCastle Levan and West Lodge, Cloch Road, By GourockCove Road and Cardwell Road, FountainMoorfield Road, Moorlea1 Cloch Road1 Davidson Drive, West Lodge10-16 (Even Nos) Steel Street105 Shore Street and 1 and 2 Hopeton Street, Victoria Bar with Courtyard Buildings11 Ashton Road116, 118 and 122 Shore Street and 3 and 5 Kempock Place (former Municipal Buildings and Police Station), Gourock12 Victoria Road12 and 13 Albert Road121 Albert Road, Spinnaker Hotel19 Victoria Road, The Croft19 and 20 Moorfield Road with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Railings2 and 4 Broomberry Drive with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers2-12 (Even Nos) Ashgrove Avenue, Viewfield20 and 20A Victoria Road21 and 22 Ashton Road25 and 27 Kempock Place26 Royal Street27 Victoria Road30, 31 and 32 Ashton Road31-42 (Inclusive Nos) Cove Road with Boundary Walls38-44 (Even Nos) Albert Road38-44 (Even Nos) Broomberry Drive39 Tower Drive with Boundary Walls44, 44A and 45 Ashton Road45 Victoria Road with Terracing Walls and Railings5 Barrhill Road with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings51 and 53 Broomberry Drive and 38 and 40 John Street52 and 53 Ashton Road6 and 7 Barrhill Road68, 70 and 72 Cardwell Road and 41 Manor Crescent8 and 10 Victoria Road with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers86 and 88 Albert Road88, 89 and 90 Shore Street and 2 and 4 John Street96 and 97 Albert Road with Gatepiers
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 11% of Gourock

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

West Bay, Gourock 197030 ha
Kempock Street/Shore Street, Gourock 19706 ha
36 hain conservation areas, of 339 ha inside the locality.

The first, West Bay, Gourock and Kempock Street/Shore Street, Gourock, were designated in 1970; the newest, Kempock Street/Shore Street, Gourock, in 1970. 47 of the 63 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

More than half of Gourock’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1994

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1994 · 381979 · 131971 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 12 entries were listed in 1971. 38 came in 1994. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.

Kempock Stone, Inverkip
Kempock Stone, InverkipPrehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Gourock

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Gourock10,072630—
Greenock42,87011215—
Inverkip3,54250—
Dunoon7,982271—
Helensburgh14,12820413—
Port Glasgow14,260193—
Kilmacolm3,876162—
Alexandria6,260242—
In brief

Gourock in brief

Gourock has 63 listed buildings, including Levan Castle (Restored Ruin), Adjoining Castle Levan, Cloch Road, By Gourock.. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 81% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1994: 38 of 63. The rest is about typical: it has no Category A building, where the middle town its size has 1; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Gourock’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Gourock?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 63 buildings inside Gourock’s locality: 0 Category A, 21 Category B and 42 Category C.

Which street in Gourock has the most listed buildings?

Ashton Road (6), Albert Road (4) and Victoria Road (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Gourock?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Kempock Stone, Inverkip.

How many conservation areas are there in Gourock?

2, covering about 36 hectares of the town. The largest are West Bay, Gourock and Kempock Street/Shore Street, Gourock.

When were Gourock’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 38, in 1994.

Are there old photos of Gourock?

Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1841 to 1903, all on this page.

Gourock has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.

Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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