Post Office, Craighouse, Jura is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office, Craighouse, Jura
- WRENN ID
- mired-alcove-solstice
- 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
- Address
- Post Office, Craighouse, Jura, PA60 7XS
- OS grid reference
- NR 527 671
- Coordinates
- 55.83371, -5.95081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pier House in Craighouse, Jura, is a traditional building from the earlier 19th century. It has two storeys and features a rendered and harled exterior with a gabled slate roof. On the east side, there is a gabled porch, while the west side has a fore-stair that is now partly enclosed in a two-storey piended bay. At the south end, there is a one-storey lean-to smiddy, and at the north end, there is a gabled rubble shop that also includes a gabled porch.
Local climate
Post Office, Craighouse, Jura sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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