Town Hall, Main Street, Bowmore, Islay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Town hall.

Town Hall, Main Street, Bowmore, Islay

WRENN ID
buried-tower-ridge
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
Town hall
OS grid reference
NR 311 597
Coordinates
55.75583, -6.2869
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town Hall on Main Street in Bowmore, Islay, is a Georgian building from the later 18th century. It has two storeys and is three windows wide. The roof is piended and covered with slate. The exterior is rendered, and the upper windows are larger than those below. The entrance features a semi-Classical doorway with a segmental arch supported by pilasters.

Local climate

Town Hall, Main Street, Bowmore, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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