Columba Hotel, Pier Road, Tarbert is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Columba Hotel, Pier Road, Tarbert
- WRENN ID
- woven-finial-acorn
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Columba Hotel, Pier Road, Tarbert, PA29 6UF
- OS grid reference
- NR 873 688
- Coordinates
- 55.86537, -5.39973
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Columba Hotel, located on Pier Road in Tarbert, is a building from the later 19th century designed in a French style. It stands three storeys tall with a front made of ashlar stone, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble and white-washed. The roof is piended and covered with slate. The front features a square bay in the center, topped with a slated roof that has a deck on top, and includes round-headed attic windows. A porch at the entrance is supported by square piers, and there are decorative brackets at the eaves. There are also low additions at the eastern end and the rear of the building.
Local climate
Columba Hotel, Pier Road, Tarbert sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,800 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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