Balinkill Lodge, Ballinakill Estate, Clachan is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Gate-lodge.

Balinkill Lodge, Ballinakill Estate, Clachan

WRENN ID
spare-pilaster-bone
Grade
C
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
Gate-lodge
OS grid reference
NR 765 561
Coordinates
55.74689, -5.56159
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balinkill Lodge, located on the Ballinakill Estate in Clachan, is a single-storey building from the later 19th century, designed in a Scottish style. It features harled walls and has gabled and piended slate roofs. The lodge is adorned with crow-step gablets above the windows and ball finials. Additionally, it has ornamental chimneys that enhance its architectural character.

Local climate

Balinkill Lodge, Ballinakill Estate, Clachan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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