Greenside Cottage, Church Road, Rhu is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1994. Cottage.
Greenside Cottage, Church Road, Rhu
- WRENN ID
- peeling-eave-merlin
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 267 839
- Coordinates
- 56.017, -4.78034
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greenside Cottage, located on Church Road in Rhu, dates from the earlier to mid 19th century. This single-storey cottage features a symmetrical, rectangular plan with three bays arranged in a 2-1 grouping. It is constructed of squared rubble with polished sandstone margins and dressings, and has quoin strips.
On the west elevation, there is a central door with a 6-pane upper glazed portion and a blocked letterbox fanlight above it. A wrought-iron overthrow and a trellis porch frame the entrance, with flanking windows on either side. The cottage has three half-pitched roof slate-hung dormers that are symmetrically placed, with the central dormer being smaller. The windows include 4 over 6 lying-pane sash and case windows, while the dormers have 4-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features lead flashings, along with a corniced sandstone apex stack located at the right end of the roof.
Additionally, the property is enclosed by pointed, cast-iron arrowhead railings.
Local climate
Greenside Cottage, Church Road, Rhu sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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