Dairy, Kerrylamont Farm, Bute is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Dairy. 1 related planning application.
Dairy, Kerrylamont Farm, Bute
- WRENN ID
- endless-footing-curlew
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Dairy
- Address
- Dairy, Kerrylamont Farm, Bute, PA20 9LP
- OS grid reference
- NS 110 585
- Coordinates
- 55.78283, -5.01493
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a late 19th-century single-storey former dairy located at Kerrylamont Farm, featuring an attic and a circular plan. It has a painted render exterior over red-brick, with a timber bracketed, stop-chamfered square-plan columnar ambulatory at the ground level, enclosed by a red-brick wall. The building showcases timber brackets beneath moulded eaves, gabled dormers, and pitched, stop-chamfered square-plan columnar walkways that connect the farmhouse on the left to outbuildings on the right.
The outer ambulatory is adorned with decorative floor tiles, and there are narrow, round-arched windows regularly placed at the ground level. It has two-leaf boarded timber doors on the northwest and southeast sides, with gabled dormers also regularly positioned on the northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast. The windows feature decorative leaded glazing, and the roof is a graded grey slate conical design with terracotta ridge detailing on the gabled dormers, although the central finial is missing. The flanking walkways also have grey slate pitches and terracotta ridge detailing.
Inside, the dairy has a terrazzo tiled floor, with some areas featuring clay tiles. The walls are covered in floor-to-ceiling white-glazed square tiles, with an acorn-leaf painted border decoration at dado and cornice levels. There is a timber corbelled cornice and a boarded timber tapering ceiling that includes a decorative ventilation grid at the flat circular summit. Openings have raised timber surrounds, and there is a continuous marble bench on regularly spaced columnar supports at dado level against the outer wall, although part of it is missing. At the center, there is a decorative painted fountain with a marble surround, a foliate base, and a mermaid set in an open shell supporting a smaller shell above.
Local climate
Dairy, Kerrylamont Farm, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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