Portkill Lodge, Portkil House is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1995. Cottage, coach house. 1 related planning application.
Portkill Lodge, Portkil House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-clay-hawk
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1995
- Type
- Cottage, coach house
- Address
- Portkill Lodge, Portkil House, G84 0LF
- OS grid reference
- NS 251 808
- Coordinates
- 55.98826, -4.80456
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Portkill Lodge, located at Portkil House, is an earlier 19th-century cottage that underwent alterations in the early 20th century. It is a low, single-storey, broad structure, featuring cement harling with ashlar margins, mullions, and dressings. The building has chamfered reveals, stop-chamfered arrises, and quoins, along with advanced boarded eaves.
The southwest elevation is symmetrically arranged with three bays. At the center is a round-headed doorway, with a tall stack directly above it. The flanking bays are slightly advanced and contain tripartite windows.
The northwest elevation, which was originally the coach house, has had its original openings infilled to accommodate three casement windows. There is a broad coach door in the center, flanked by two additional doors.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The exterior features three horizontal-pane fixed windows and six-pane casement windows. The roof is a shallow pitched grey slate piended roof with lead flashings, and it has a tall coped wallhead stack with chamfered arrises and a single octagonal can.
Local climate
Portkill Lodge, Portkil House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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