Balmory House Gatelodge, Balmory Road, Ascog, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Gatelodge.
Balmory House Gatelodge, Balmory Road, Ascog, Bute
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-quoin-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Gatelodge
- OS grid reference
- NS 105 628
- Coordinates
- 55.82201, -5.02605
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balmory House Gatelodge, located on Balmory Road in Ascog, Bute, is a single-storey, three-bay gatelodge built in the later 19th century. It features a flat-roofed, single-bay rendered addition on the outer right and a square-plan columnar porch that is offset to the left of the center. The building is constructed from squared and snecked yellow sandstone, with sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a raised ashlar base course and corbelled eaves. The gatelodge includes shouldered-arched panelled bays and shouldered-arched, architraved surrounds to its openings, with stylised corbels beneath the projecting cills.
On the south (entrance) elevation, there is a replacement two-leaf timber door at the center, flanked by a projecting square-plan columnar porch. To the outer left, there is a single window, while an advanced bay to the right features a bipartite window. The recessed addition to the outer right has a single window. The original block has 2-pane timber sash and case windows, while the addition has timber casements. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a piended design, along with replacement rainwater goods. Corniced wallhead stacks are located to the east and west, with a single circular can.
The interior was not seen during the 1996 inspection.
Local climate
Balmory House Gatelodge, Balmory Road, Ascog, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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