Post Office, Front Street East, Inveraray is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. Post office, grocers shop, house. 1 related planning application.

Post Office, Front Street East, Inveraray

WRENN ID
salt-doorway-violet
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
Post office, grocers shop, house
Address
Post Office, Front Street East, Inveraray, PA32 8UY
OS grid reference
NN 096 085
Coordinates
56.23108, -5.0718
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office on Front Street East in Inveraray is a Georgian building dating from 1776. It has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window-wide facade. The exterior is harled, featuring a gabled slate roof and two piended dormers. The building is adorned with ashlar chimneys and has a rusticated doorway with a segmental fanlight above it.

Local climate

Post Office, Front Street East, 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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