Post Cottage, Portnacroish is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Post Cottage, Portnacroish
- WRENN ID
- turning-timber-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Post Cottage, Portnacroish, PA38 4BL
- OS grid reference
- NM 925 473
- Coordinates
- 56.57212, -5.37893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Post Cottage in Portnacroish is an 18th-century traditional cottage. It is a single storey building with a harled exterior and a gabled roof. The cottage is part of a row of four cottages that line the road, with one cottage located to the rear of the easternmost one.
Local climate
Post Cottage, Portnacroish 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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