Point House, Loch Gair is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Castle.
Point House, Loch Gair
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-finial-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NR 929 900
- Coordinates
- 56.05795, -5.32662
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Point House, located in Loch Gair, is an early 19th-century building designed in the Gothick style. It features a thinly rendered exterior and a pyramidal slate roof, with chimneys positioned at each corner. The building has sockets for a flag-pole on the northeast side and includes blind pointed arches that frame square windows. There is also a lean-to addition on the northwest side.
Local climate
Point House, Loch Gair sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,810 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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