Auchinfroe House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Villa, stable. 3 related planning applications.
Auchinfroe House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-plinth-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Villa, stable
- Address
- Auchinfroe House, G82 5ES
- OS grid reference
- NS 349 776
- Coordinates
- 55.96301, -4.64545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Auchinfroe House is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay Classical villa with a rectangular plan, featuring a U-plan stable range attached to the northwest, which is dated 1814. The building is harled and painted, with ashlar margins and dressings, a base course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course that supports the eaves with moulded guttering and quoin strips.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three bays with the entrance bay advanced and chamfered corners. It features a later columned and pedimented shallow porch with a modern door and a fanlight with border glazing. The windows at both the ground and first floors are located in the returns, creating symmetrical flanking bays.
The east elevation is near-symmetrically arranged with four bays, and a modern conservatory is advanced at the penultimate left. The west elevation also has four near-symmetrical bays, with smaller windows on the outer left and a square slate-hung dormer at the center.
The windows are primarily 12-pane uPVC in a sash and case arrangement, along with some replacement top-hung windows. The roof is a grey slate piend and platform style, featuring coped ridge stacks with circular cans.
The stable range, which includes gatepiers and railings, is dated 1814 and is a quadrangular-plan stable block attached to the northeast of the house. It has been partly converted for domestic use in the west block, with an entrance at the southeast. The stable range is also harled with an ashlar base course and painted ashlar margins.
The south range is a long blank wall with a segmental-arched carriage door to the right, a two-leaf boarded door, a keystone inscribed with the initials JG EC 1814, and five flight-holes with a ledge. To the right, there is a uPVC window.
The west range consists of six bays, featuring three basket-arched carriage openings on the outer left, a pend door on the right, and two 16-pane timber sash and case windows on the outer right.
The north range has a piend-roof and a symmetrical five-bay south elevation, with a door at the center flanked by windows, including a uPVC top-hung window.
The gatepiers and railings consist of paired round-headed gatepiers with chamfered arrises, along with cast-iron arrowhead railings and gates.
Local climate
Auchinfroe 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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