Shelter, Cabbie's Rest, Mid Pier is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Shelter. 1 related planning application.
Shelter, Cabbie's Rest, Mid Pier
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pavement-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Shelter
- Address
- Shelter, Cabbie's Rest, Mid Pier, PA20 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 089 647
- Coordinates
- 55.83813, -5.05296
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cabbie's Rest Shelter at Mid Pier is a single-storey, 10-bay cast-iron structure designed by Alexander Stephen in 1930. It features a glazed roof and was relocated from West Pier to Mid Pier in 2010. This shelter served as the taxi cab staging area for visitors arriving in Rothesay by steamer.
The shelter has a rectangular plan and is supported by 22 equally-disposed cast-iron columns. It includes riveted cast-iron trusses with curving collar-braces and an opaque-glazed piended roof. Decorative cast-iron friezes adorn the east, north, and south elevations. The west elevation features half-engaged columns with infill panels and 8-pane tripartite glazing. Ornamental cast-iron finials are present on the north and south sides.
The former cabbie's office/store located at West Pier is a 3-bay, square-plan cast-iron building with a raised plinth and engaged corner columns. It has a door on the west side and a multi-pane margin-light glazing pattern with opaque multi-coloured stained glass.
Local climate
Shelter, Cabbie's Rest, Mid Pier sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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