Free Church School, Newton Row, Newtown, Inveraray is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. School.

Free Church School, Newton Row, Newtown, Inveraray

WRENN ID
empty-fireplace-nettle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 August 1966
Type
School
OS grid reference
NN 093 081
Coordinates
56.22725, -5.07672
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church School, located on Newton Row in Newtown, Inveraray, was built in 1848 and extended in 1880. This Victorian building is a single storey constructed from snecked rubble and features a piended slate roof. It has a gabled projection with a plaque that reads 'Free Church School 1848'. The school includes segmental-headed windows and doors. The extension, added in 1880, has a piended roof with a flat roof deck and also displays a plaque with the date '1880'.

Local climate

Free Church School, Newton Row, Newtown, Inveraray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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