Summer House, Taynish House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Gun room.
Summer House, Taynish House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-render-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Gun room
- OS grid reference
- NR 726 830
- Coordinates
- 55.9864, -5.64658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Summer House at Taynish House is an early 19th-century Gothic structure. It is octagonal in shape and consists of one storey with an attic. The exterior is harled, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and features two low-set chimney stacks. The building has pointed windows and clerestorey lights, and there is a timber internal stair leading to the attic floor.
Local climate
Summer House, Taynish House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,800 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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