South Park, Shore Road, Cove is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. Cottage villa.
South Park, Shore Road, Cove
- WRENN ID
- pale-baluster-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1980
- Type
- Cottage villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 221 828
- Coordinates
- 56.00549, -4.85443
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Park is a post-1865, two-storey, three-bay gabled L-plan cottage villa. It features a honey-coloured sandstone ashlar front, with harled side and rear elevations, and has ashlar margins and dressings along with quoin strips.
The southwest elevation, which is the main front, consists of a three-bay main block with a single-storey harled bay on the outer left. The broad bay has a narrow gable on the left, featuring a canted, corniced window at ground level and bipartite round-headed windows on the first floor. There is a battered Greco style round-headed door with channelled voussoirs, a plate glass fanlight, and a largely glazed vestibule door. Above, there is a small segmental-headed eyelet dormer. To the outer right, there is a large window at ground level with a consoled cornice and a gabled, canted dormerhead with a round-headed centre window. The single-storey block on the outer left has a large gabled window that breaks the eaves, with a gable on the left return.
The southeast elevation features five bays, with two broad bays on the left and a three-bay symmetrical block to the right. There is a broad asymmetrical gable on the outer left, with a window at ground level on the left and a glazed door with a window above it to the right of centre. The three gabled bays to the right have decorative bargeboards, with the centre gable being higher. The windows are symmetrically arranged at both ground and first floor, with round-headed windows on the first floor.
The northwest elevation has a single-storey block against the gable of the house, with various openings. It includes plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and a low coped rendered ridge stack.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
There are outbuildings that include a later 19th-century gabled coach house block, which has circa 1930s doors with enlarged openings at ground level and a round-headed window in the gablehead. There is also a block of single-storey stores to the left, featuring half-glazed doors and a piend roof.
Local climate
South Park, Shore Road, Cove sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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