Feorlinn, Donaldson's Brae, Kilcreggan is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1995. Villa.
Feorlinn, Donaldson's Brae, Kilcreggan
- WRENN ID
- muffled-brass-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1995
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 238 804
- Coordinates
- 55.98499, -4.8252
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Feorlinn is a post-1865, two-storey, two-bay villa located on Donaldson's Brae in Kilcreggan. It features a gabled, rectangular plan with Italianate details. The exterior is constructed from whinstone and sandstone rubble, creating a polychromatic effect, with sandstone ashlar margins and dressings. The entrance and rear elevations are rough-harled and painted. Notable architectural features include a base course, quoin strips, advanced wooden eaves, a string course, and roll-moulded reveals.
On the east elevation, the broad gable is advanced to the outer left, featuring a round-headed canopy porch supported by slender colonnettes, with a bargeboarded gable above. The round-headed door is two-leaf and panelled, with a window immediately to the left. The upper floor has two windows, asymmetrically placed to the outer left and right of centre. There is a tall stair window at the centre of the right return, with smaller windows to the outer right and left, and a single-storey rubble scullery block recessed to the right.
The south elevation is two-storey over a raised basement, with a broad, depressed gable slightly advanced to the outer right. It features a canted window from the basement to the principal floor, with stugged sandstone for the basement. The bipartite round-arched windows have a central colonnette and ashlar voussoirs. There is a window at ground level to the left, and a semicircular-headed window with a barrel canopy that breaks the eaves at the first floor.
The villa has four-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and a coped sandstone ridge stack with octagonal cans.
Inside, the villa boasts decorative cast-iron balusters, a stair window with painted border glass, and elaborate floral plasterwork in the drawing room.
The boundary wall and gates consist of whinstone walls, reconstructed with sea boulders set in cement for coping. The property is marked by slender cast-iron gateposts and arrowhead railings.
Local climate
Feorlinn, Donaldson's Brae, Kilcreggan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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