George Hotel, George Street, Dunoon is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Hotel.

George Hotel, George Street, Dunoon

WRENN ID
tilted-ashlar-holly
Grade
C
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
Hotel
OS grid reference
NS 175 770
Coordinates
55.95213, -4.92414
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The George Hotel, located on George Street in Dunoon, dates from around 1800 and is designed in a plain Georgian style. The building has two storeys and features a main block that is three windows wide, along with an extension that is two windows wide. The exterior is harled, with modern roughcast applied to the front. The roof is gabled and covered with slate, extending over a stair at the rear. The hotel has astragal chimneys and a wooden classical doorway adorned with pilasters and an entablature. Additionally, there is a flat-roofed addition at the back of the building.

Local climate

George Hotel, George Street, Dunoon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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