Asknish House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Asknish House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-merlon-sunrise
- 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
- House
- Address
- Asknish House, PA31 8SB
- OS grid reference
- NR 928 915
- Coordinates
- 56.07141, -5.32982
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Asknish House is a Georgian building from the later 18th century, featuring three storeys. It is constructed of coursed rubble and has a piended roof with a flat deck. The façade is distinguished by giant pilasters with rusticated plinths and a cornice. A projecting central pavilion includes a round-headed niche flanked by windows on the second floor, a fluted Ionic Palladian window on the first floor, and a classical doorway with Doric pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment. At the rear, there is a gabled pavilion, along with a lean-to that has crow-steps and crenellation. The design is complemented by curved flanking walls topped with ball-finials.
Local climate
Asknish House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,810 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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