Piermasters Shipping Office, Port Askaig, Islay is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Shipping office, post office.

Piermasters Shipping Office, Port Askaig, Islay

WRENN ID
keen-chimney-furze
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 July 1971
Type
Shipping office, post office
OS grid reference
NR 431 693
Coordinates
55.84844, -6.10503
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Piermasters Shipping Office in Port Askaig, Islay, is an earlier 19th-century building featuring two stages and a traditional design. The exterior is harled, and it has a gabled roof covered with slate. The building also includes skews.

Local climate

Piermasters Shipping Office, Port Askaig, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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