Lorne Cottage, Garvel Road, Tarbert is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Lorne Cottage, Garvel Road, Tarbert

WRENN ID
noble-spire-wax
Grade
C
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
Cottage
Address
Lorne Cottage, Garvel Road, Tarbert, PA29 6TR
OS grid reference
NR 867 692
Coordinates
55.86906, -5.41021
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lorne Cottage, located on Garvel Road in Tarbert, is a smaller version of Lorne Villa, built in the later 19th century. The cottage has one storey and a loft, constructed from rubble with a piended slate roof. The loft is accessed through a door on the side, situated above a large ground floor door. The entrance features a simplified classical doorway.

Local climate

Lorne Cottage, Garvel Road, Tarbert 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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