The Coalery, Easdale Island is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 June 2001. Engine shed.
The Coalery, Easdale Island
- WRENN ID
- distant-mortar-amber
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 June 2001
- Type
- Engine shed
- OS grid reference
- NM 738 170
- Coordinates
- 56.29225, -5.6565
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Coalery on Easdale Island is a former engine shed built in the later 19th century. It is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan and M-gabled roof, constructed from whinstone and slate rubble coursers. A bell tower is located at the eastern gable.
The eastern elevation features two large gabled bays. The left bay has a square-headed machinery door and a smaller pedestrian door, while a small bell tower is slightly recessed from the apex, with the bell suspended between two slate piers capped by a large slate slab. The right bay contains large square-headed double machinery doors, with timber boarding extending from the eaves to the apex of the gable.
On the western elevation, there is a window on the ground left side. The northern elevation has a gabled roof that terminates at the centre right, with a lean-to roof extending from the centre right to the outer right. The southern elevation features a window on the outer left and a modern dormer window also on the outer left.
The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and the windows are 4-pane timber sash and case. Inside, the building is an open-plan workshop with small offices partitioned off at the rear.
Local climate
The Coalery, Easdale Island sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,300 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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