Glenavon, Back Road, Clynder is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1995. Villa.
Glenavon, Back Road, Clynder
- WRENN ID
- distant-thatch-curlew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1995
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 246 844
- Coordinates
- 56.02037, -4.81528
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glenavon is a later 19th-century, two-storey, gabled L-plan villa situated on sloping ground to the east, featuring a rectangular-plan, gabled, three-storey tower to the north. The building is constructed of rubble with harl-pointing and has painted ashlar margins and dressings. It showcases projecting eaves with exposed rafters, a band course on the east elevation, quoin strips, and stugged quoins.
On the west elevation, the L-plan villa is located to the right and includes a piend-roofed glazed porch in the re-entrant angle. There is a blank wall to the outer right, with windows symmetrically arranged in the outer right gable, including a broad window at ground level. The rectangular-plan gabled tower is to the outer left, featuring a window on the first floor and in the attic, with additional windows on the right return.
The east elevation has a raised basement and a canted bay to the outer right extending from the basement to the first floor. Small windows are symmetrically placed at the basement level, with margins that interrupt the band course. A narrow bay is located at the centre, and a broad gable is advanced to the outer right, featuring a window with a stepped hoodmould and another window in the gablehead. To the outer right, there is a garage block with a boarded garage door and upper lights, along with a modern flat-roofed rendered addition above, which serves as a second storey in the re-entrant angle and includes modern windows. The tower is recessed behind this addition and has a window on both the first and second floors.
The villa features four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and coped ridge stacks, some of which have lotus leaf cans.
Local climate
Glenavon, Back Road, Clynder 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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