Craignish Manse, Ardfern is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Manse.

Craignish Manse, Ardfern

WRENN ID
quiet-jade-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Manse
OS grid reference
NM 803 042
Coordinates
56.18003, -5.54089
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Craignish Manse, built in 1834, is a Georgian-style building with two storeys. It features harled walls and a piended slate roof. The design includes a projecting central pavilion and band-courses. The entrance has a semi-classical doorway, and there is a piended addition at the northeast. Recent internal alterations have been made to the property.

Local climate

Craignish Manse, Ardfern sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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