Islay Lodge, Poltalloch Street, Lochgilphead is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Islay Lodge, Poltalloch Street, Lochgilphead

WRENN ID
brooding-gable-ochre
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
House
Address
Islay Lodge, Poltalloch Street, Lochgilphead, PA31 8LP
OS grid reference
NR 860 880
Coordinates
56.03698, -5.43612
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Islay Lodge, located on Poltalloch Street in Lochgilphead, is an early 19th-century plain Georgian building. It stands two storeys high and features three wide windows, with one-storey wings extending to the east and west. The structure is built of rubble and rendered at the front, topped with a slate roof. Each wing has a blind arch that interrupts a string-course. The west wing has been converted into a garage and has undergone recent alterations.

Local climate

Islay Lodge, Poltalloch Street, Lochgilphead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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