Greenhill, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1995. Villa, boundary wall.
Greenhill, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan
- WRENN ID
- riven-cloister-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1995
- Type
- Villa, boundary wall
- Address
- Greenhill, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan, G84 0HW
- OS grid reference
- NS 226 807
- Coordinates
- 55.98671, -4.84397
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greenhill is a later 19th-century villa, built after 1865, featuring two storeys and a raised basement. It has a rectangular plan with three bays and a gabled roof, constructed from whinstone and sandstone rubble, accented with polished sandstone margins and dressings, and a base course.
The southwest (main) elevation showcases a broad pilastered and corniced door at the center, which is a half-glazed door topped with a plate glass fanlight and a narrow round-headed window above. To the outer right, there is a tall gable with a full-height canted window, a half-piended roof, and a dividing cornice. On the ground left, a slightly advanced corniced tripartite window features roll-moulded arrises and a gable that breaks the eaves above, with a round-headed window on the first floor and a blank plaque above it.
The northeast (rear) elevation includes the main block with a lower jamb offset to the left, although there are unsympathetic additions present. The main elevation has plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the rear features 12-pane windows and a stair window with border glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead flashings, and it has squat, corniced ridge stacks with circular cans. A square downpipe, decorative rainwater hopper, and other fixtures are retained.
The interior was not seen in 1993.
There is a simple cast-iron balustrade that terminates with an ashlar die featuring a plaque motif and a segmental cap to the south of the main front, above the lawn. Stone steps lead to the lawn on both the right and left, with a rendered garden storage area below.
The boundary wall is made of whinstone rubble with harl-pointing and quartz boulder coping, curving toward the gate. The vermiculated piers have stop-chamfered arrises and pyramidal caps, with "Greenhill House" carved into the pier on the left.
The gates are light early 20th-century Glasgow-style cast-iron gates.
Local climate
Greenhill, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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