Cairnbaan Hotel, Crinan Canal is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.

Cairnbaan Hotel, Crinan Canal

WRENN ID
odd-string-falcon
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
Hotel
Address
Cairnbaan Hotel, Crinan Canal, PA31 8SQ
OS grid reference
NR 839 908
Coordinates
56.06136, -5.47209
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cairnbaan Hotel, located by the Crinan Canal, is an early 19th-century Georgian building. It stands two storeys high and is three windows wide, featuring an ashlar front and a gabled slate roof. The entrance has a semi-classical design, and there are ashlar chimneys on the building. To the west, there is a two-storey piended wing. The doorway has been altered from its original design.

Local climate

Cairnbaan Hotel, Crinan Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,880 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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