The Coffee House, Quay Close, Inveraray is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Coffee house. 2 related planning applications.

The Coffee House, Quay Close, Inveraray

WRENN ID
low-wattle-bistre
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
Coffee house
Address
The Coffee House, Quay Close, Inveraray, PA32 8XA
OS grid reference
NN 096 085
Coordinates
56.23092, -5.0718
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Coffee House in Quay Close, Inveraray, was designed by Eustace Balfour around 1880. It is an L-plan building that is single storey with an attic. The structure is made of rubble, featuring a harled front and one rendered side, topped with gabled slate roofs and four gabled dormers. It has ashlar chimneys, and the north gable is curvilinear, adorned with a panel displaying the ducal coat-of-arms and motto, a string course, and a plaque commemorating Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll. The south gable is plain but includes decorative skew-putts, and there is an ashlar bay window.

Local climate

The Coffee House, Quay Close, 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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