Druimavuic Ballieveolon House Gatepiers And Roadside Cairns is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 March 2002. Cairn.

Druimavuic Ballieveolon House Gatepiers And Roadside Cairns

WRENN ID
stark-rood-elder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 March 2002
Type
Cairn
OS grid reference
NN 006 449
Coordinates
56.55448, -5.24433
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Druimavuic Ballieveolon House Gatepiers and Roadside Cairns are likely from the 19th century. They consist of circular-plan rubble cairns, with a total of 54 cairns, each topped by a single stone. These cairns are located along the A828 road to the west of Druimavuic. There are two pairs of cairns with decorative pebble caps that serve as gatepiers to Druimavuic Ballieveolon House, positioned at the north and west sides.

Local climate

Druimavuic Ballieveolon House Gatepiers And Roadside Cairns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,110 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 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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