Upper Craigard, Gareloch Road, Rhu is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1994. House.

Upper Craigard, Gareloch Road, Rhu

WRENN ID
waning-window-raven
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1994
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 267 839
Coordinates
56.01691, -4.78032
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Upper Craigard is an early 20th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located on Gareloch Road in Rhu. The building features a rectangular plan and is finished with white-painted harl, accented by painted ashlar margins and dressings.

The house has projecting eaves and exposed rafters, with raised cills. The south elevation, which is the principal facade, displays three symmetrical bays. At the center, there is a door flanked by canted windows, all covered by a timber porch canopy and united by a half-pitched slate roof. The first floor has symmetrically arranged windows, with a single window at the center and tripartite windows on the outer left and right.

On the west elevation, there is a wallhead stack at the center, with windows symmetrically placed on the outer left and a blank wall on the right. A small half-pitched porch door is located at the re-entrant angle, which is boarded with a three-pane upper light. The windows are six-pane over plate glass sash and case types. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a piend and platformed design, and there are tall harled wallhead stacks with sandstone coping topped by round terracotta cans.

The boundary wall surrounding the property is a low rubble wall with ashlar slab coping, which steps down to the west and is adorned with arrowhead railings.

Local climate

Upper Craigard, Gareloch Road, Rhu sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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