Lodge, Finnart House, Arrochar Road, Finnart is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Gate lodge.

Lodge, Finnart House, Arrochar Road, Finnart

WRENN ID
vast-attic-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
NS 239 949
Coordinates
56.11483, -4.83304
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodge at Finnart House, designed by William Burn around the 1830s, is a picturesque single-storey building with a raised basement on the northwest side due to the sloping ground. The main block has a circular plan with gabled and piend-roofed projections that create a bi-axial V arrangement on the main elevation. The exterior is constructed of rubble with stugged red sandstone margins and dressings, featuring quoin strips, projecting eaves, and exposed rafters.

On the south (main) elevation, there is a gabled porch with a depressed-arch doorway and a window on the left return. To the right of the porch is a parapet of the avenue bridge over the burn, with an octagonal die abutting the left side of the porch. The entrance features a flush six-panelled door. The central area has a higher bowed bay with a blocked window directly under the eaves, and there is a blank bay to the outer left.

The north (rear) elevation features an advanced, shouldered, and pedestalled stack at the center, with curved walls on either side that include a window. To the right, there is a swept cat-slide roof over the curved bay. All windows are currently blocked, although they were formerly bipartite casements. The roof is covered with grey slate and topped with a lead finial, while the wallhead stack is coped and has circular cans.

The boundary wall is made of rubble with semicircular coping.

Local climate

Lodge, Finnart House, Arrochar Road, Finnart 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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