South Wing, South Range, The Doll's Houses, Killean is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 1992.
South Wing, South Range, The Doll's Houses, Killean
- WRENN ID
- watchful-bastion-winter
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1992
- OS grid reference
- NR 695 446
- Coordinates
- 55.64068, -5.66297
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The South Wing of the North Range at The Doll's Houses in Killean, designed by JJ Burnet around 1895, consists of a pair of semi-detached blocks of U-plan Arts and Crafts cottages. These buildings feature cream sandstone ashlar dressings alongside carefully random schist rubble, with each block containing mirror-image cottages.
The front elevation of the left-hand cottage showcases four prominent gables with eaves that have plain bargeboards supported by corbels. At the attic level, there is a small four-pane window. The roof extends and slopes down to the ground floor, where it features bipartite corner casement glazing. To the right, the roof is supported by a bracket to form a porch, which has a baluster on a dwarf wall that supports the bargeboard. The porch continues under deep eaves and includes a tripartite casement window set in a brick wall, with wooden bench seats positioned below the window. The chimney stacks have plain copes and blocking courses on the gable heads, with a wall separating the two houses. A three-pane skylight is located on the upper slope of the main roof.
The side elevation is single-storey, featuring quadripartite casement corner glazing to the right, with a small piend above this window and a full piend to the left, along with a skylight to the left. All casements are six-pane.
The right-hand cottages are mirror images of the left-hand ones. The interiors have not been seen.
Local climate
South Wing, South Range, The Doll's Houses, Killean sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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