Ormsary House is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. House.

Ormsary House

WRENN ID
proud-corbel-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 August 1980
Type
House
OS grid reference
NR 739 720
Coordinates
55.8883, -5.6157
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ormsary House is a late 19th century building with extensions added in 1905, designed in a Scottish style. It is two storeys high with one-storey wings and attics. The exterior is harled, featuring gabled slate roofs and gabled dormers. Notable architectural elements include crow-steps, skew-putts (one dated 1905), and turrets. The south elevation has a plain classical doorway with a crest and motto above it. On the west side, there is a two-storey flat-roofed projection that includes a balustrade and a bell.

Local climate

Ormsary House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,770 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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