The Clock House, Criagnish Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 June 1982. Farm building.
The Clock House, Criagnish Castle
- WRENN ID
- ancient-span-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1982
- Type
- Farm building
- OS grid reference
- NM 771 017
- Coordinates
- 56.1562, -5.58947
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clock House at Criagnish Castle is a courtyard block of one-storey farm buildings, dated 1770 and 1890. It features rubble walls with droved dressings, angle margins, and moulded eaves, topped with slate roofs that have skew gables and corbelled chimneys on the outer gables. The symmetrical south front includes pavilion ends and an advanced central bay, which is adorned with an octagonal finial on an incised pedestal from 1890 and a weathervane above. A tall elliptical carriage arch is topped with a pierced quatrefoil. The building has sash windows with raised margins and glazing bars. Behind the outer gables, there are one-storey plus hayloft ranges. On the east side, there is an arched pend featuring an incised keystone dated 1770, attributed to J C and C C. The walls of the north range have distinctive cross-shaped "arrow slits" for ventilation.
Local climate
The Clock House, Criagnish Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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