Glengair is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Villa.
Glengair
- WRENN ID
- silver-terrace-wax
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 240 856
- Coordinates
- 56.03165, -4.82506
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glengair is a villa built around 1830, with mid-19th century additions at the rear. It is a single-storey building on a raised basement or cellar, featuring five bays and two-storey additions that create a U-shaped plan. The exterior is finished in white-painted harl, with sandstone margins and dressings, and has chamfered reveals and broad, bracketed eaves. The windows have moulded timber and stone mullions and transoms.
On the southeast (main) elevation, there are five symmetrical bays, with three bays advanced at the centre. Stairs lead to a central entrance door, which is a two-leaf panelled door with a deep fanlight that has border glazing. There is also a half-glazed, two-leaf vestibule door with lying-pane glazing. The flanking windows are symmetrical, and there is a block recessed to the outer left and right, with a window at the centre.
The northwest elevation features a long, single-storey, two-bay block on the outer left and a mid-19th century two-bay block to the right. There is a tripartite window on the outer left and a louvred door on the outer right. The bays are symmetrically arranged on the two-storey block, which has a window and a modern door at ground level.
On the southwest (rear) elevation, there is a two-bay recessed block at the centre, with two windows symmetrically placed on the first floor, consisting of 4-pane over 6-pane plate glass sash and case windows. A narrow half-glazed door is located to the right of centre, while a door that has been blocked as a window is on the outer right, with another window to the left. The two-storey jambs on the right and left have symmetrically disposed windows.
The southeast elevation includes a 19th-century, three-bay, two-storey block with symmetrically arranged bays and a door at the ground outer left. There is a single-storey villa block to the outer right, featuring a bipartite window.
The windows throughout the building include transomed and mullioned casement windows, lying-pane glazing, and 4-pane sash and case windows on the two-storey additions, with plate glass in the tripartite window. The roof is covered with grey slate, has a shallow pitched piended design, and includes lead flashings. There are corniced paired sandstone wallhead stacks with pedestal bases and circular cans, as well as cement-rendered ridge and wallhead stacks with sandstone coping.
Inside, the house has been converted into flats. The symmetrical hallway features stone-flagged flooring, and there is a stair opening to the left, which is now blocked. The main room on the northwest side, originally a ballroom, has delicate plasterwork and a pilastered fireplace.
Local climate
Glengair sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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