Torrisdale Square, Torrisdale is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Building complex. 2 related planning applications.
Torrisdale Square, Torrisdale
- WRENN ID
- secret-fireplace-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Building complex
- Address
- Torrisdale Square, Torrisdale, PA28 6QT
- OS grid reference
- NR 796 364
- Coordinates
- 55.57178, -5.4965
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Torrisdale Square, built around 1850, is a castellated structure featuring three sides that enclose a yard. It has one storey and a loft, constructed from rubble with a piended slate roof. The windows have hood-mouldings, and there is a two-storey entrance tower with a piended roof. This tower includes a doocot, a corbelled and crenellated parapet, and elliptical arches.
Local climate
Torrisdale Square, Torrisdale sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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