Kinlochlaich House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House.
Kinlochlaich House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-slate-nightshade
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NM 938 466
- Coordinates
- 56.566, -5.35635
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kinlochlaich House is a Gothic-style building dating from around 1830. It is two storeys high and has a harled exterior with slated roofs. The central portion of the house features a gabled front with pinnacled buttresses, along with pointed windows and a doorway. There are piended dormers on the sides of the garret. The wings of the house are also piended and include crenellated turrets. The wing on the east side is earlier, likely from the 18th century.
Local climate
Kinlochlaich House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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