4, Easdale Island is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. House.
4, Easdale Island
- WRENN ID
- buried-garret-wren
- 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
- House
- Address
- 4, Easdale Island, PA34 4TB
- OS grid reference
- NM 739 170
- Coordinates
- 56.29158, -5.65398
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4, Easdale Island is a terrace of improved cottages from the earlier 19th century, designed in a single-storey, rectangular plan. The exterior features harled whinstone and slate rubble, with grey slate roofing, lead flashing, and regular coped stacks topped with clay cans.
No. 2 has a northwest elevation with five bays, originally two cottages, and a boarded door located in the fourth bay. The southeast elevation has a boarded door to the centre left, while the northeast elevation displays a harled gable end. It features plate glass timber sash and case windows. The interior was not seen in 2001.
No. 3 has a northwest elevation with three bays and a modern timber and glazed astragal door off centre right. The southeast elevation shows irregular fenestration and a boarded door to the far right, with modern four-pane timber sash and case windows. Inside, there is a lathe and exposed beam ceiling in the sitting room, a shelved recess in the northeast gable wall, and an original 19th-century range in the centre. It also includes a small kitchen and bathroom to the rear, with a bedroom to the right.
No. 4 features a northwest elevation with five bays, originally two cottages, with part of the second cottage absorbed by No. 5. It has a modern timber door with astragal glazing. The southeast elevation includes a modern flat-roofed extension across its length and modern timber casement windows. The interior was not seen in 2001.
No. 5 has a northwest elevation with six bays, originally two cottages, with part of the second cottage absorbed by No. 4. The right side is a regular three-bay cottage with a false timber door, while the left side comprises half a cottage with a window flanked by doors. The southeast elevation features a modern pitched roof extension to the left and a large modern window. The southwest elevation has a harled gable end and small four-pane timber sash and case windows on the principal elevation. The interior was not seen in 2001.
The garden walls consist of continuous slate rubble walling with rounded corners.
Local climate
4, 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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