Chamberlain's House, Front Street West, Inveraray is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. House. 6 related planning applications.

Chamberlain's House, Front Street West, Inveraray

WRENN ID
sombre-panel-rye
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 August 1966
Type
House
Address
Chamberlain's House, Front Street West, Inveraray, PA32 8UY
OS grid reference
NN 096 085
Coordinates
56.23129, -5.07252
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Chamberlain's House, located on Front Street West in Inveraray, was built in 1751 and is a Georgian-style building designed by John Adam. It has an L-shaped plan and consists of two storeys and an attic. The exterior is harled with gabled roofs and slate covering, featuring piended dormers. There is a string course running along the building. A later addition is a gabled porch that includes a segmental-headed window. At the rear, there is a gabled addition that runs parallel to the main street wing.

Local climate

Chamberlain's House, Front Street West, Inveraray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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