Ardtalla, Islay is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Farmhouse, steading.
Ardtalla, Islay
- WRENN ID
- haunted-steel-hyssop
- 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
- Farmhouse, steading
- OS grid reference
- NR 466 545
- Coordinates
- 55.71804, -6.03577
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardtalla is a traditional house from the earlier 19th century located on Islay. The house is two storeys high and has a harled exterior with a gabled slate roof and skews. Adjacent to the house is a steading that forms three sides of a yard. This steading is a single storey with a loft, constructed from rubble and lime-washed, featuring a gabled and piended slate roof.
Local climate
Ardtalla, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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