Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 March 1990. Villa. 3 related planning applications.

Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon

WRENN ID
scattered-oriel-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 March 1990
Type
Villa
Address
Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon, PA23 7DU
OS grid reference
NS 173 766
Coordinates
55.94824, -4.92682
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Milton House is a two-storey villa designed in the Tudoresque style by David Hamilton, built around 1842. The building features a lower service wing to the north, which is now used as offices. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins, dressings, and chamfered ingoes. Most openings have hood moulds, and the original horizontal glazing pattern is retained in the sash windows. The gables are either crowstepped or have saw-toothed skews.

The main entrance is on the west elevation, which has three bays. The right side features an advanced gable with a canted ground floor window and a crenellated porch in the re-entrant angle. To the left, there is a wall-head gable with a single window above the upper level of the wing. The south elevation is symmetrical, with three finialled and gabled window bays, the outer bays slightly advanced. There is a shallow central porch that originally had a door but is now a window. A tall stair window faces east. The stacks have square flues linked by a cornice, with some being cut down. The roofs are slated.

Inside, the decoration is classical, with principal rooms showcasing decorative cornice plasterwork and ornate chimney pieces. The cast-iron stair balusters follow a common pattern.

Local climate

Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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