Entrance Arch To Former Poor House, Witchburn Road, Campbeltown is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Entrance arch. 1 related planning application.

Entrance Arch To Former Poor House, Witchburn Road, Campbeltown

WRENN ID
dusted-wattle-peregrine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
Entrance arch
Address
Entrance Arch To Former Poor House, Witchburn Road, Campbeltown, PA28 6PD
OS grid reference
NR 715 202
Coordinates
55.42307, -5.61172
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The entrance arch to the former poor house on Witchburn Road in Campbeltown was designed by John Honeyman in 1861. It features a boundary wall made of random rubble with a concrete coping along Dell Road, and the main entrance arch is centrally located. The entrance gate is made of droved ashlar and consists of a gabled arch with a base course, a string course at the level of the arch springer, and a cavetto-moulded skew. Flanking the round-arched entrance are incised colonnettes with capitals and bases, leading to an architraved arch-head. The entrance includes two vertically-boarded timber doors with iron hinges and a handle. Additionally, there is an early 20th century concrete architraved doorway to the east.

Local climate

Entrance Arch To Former Poor House, Witchburn Road, Campbeltown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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