Kilmicael Farm And Boundary Wall, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Farmhouse.
Kilmicael Farm And Boundary Wall, Bute
- WRENN ID
- fallen-entrance-twilight
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NR 993 708
- Coordinates
- 55.88878, -5.20943
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilmicael Farm is a mid-19th century farmhouse that features a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay plain classical design, with a slightly recessed two-storey, two-bay addition on the outer right. The property includes a single-storey outbuilding that forms an L-shape, along with additional single-storey outbuildings to the north and east, which enclose a courtyard at the rear. The front of the farmhouse is finished in whitewashed harl with raised, painted margins and projecting cills, while the rear is constructed from whitewashed sandstone rubble with narrow strip quoins. The outbuildings are also made of whitewashed rubble with painted margins.
On the west (entrance) elevation, the three-bay wing features a modern timber door centered at the ground level, with a single window aligned above it and flanking windows in the outer bays. The recessed two-bay wing to the right has a modern timber door in the right bay and a single window above, with single windows in both floors of the left bay. To the right, there is a single-storey outbuilding with single windows at the center and outer left.
The east (rear) elevation includes a full-height piended bay adjoining a stair tower, with a modern timber door offset to the left of center, a quadripartite fanlight, and a single window in the left bay. There is also a single window at the first floor and a stair window in the right bay, along with a recessed single window in the outer right bay. The outer left has single windows at both floors in two recessed bays.
The farmhouse predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and has a graded grey slate roof with raised stone skews and replacement rainwater goods. The original block has corniced ashlar apex stacks, while the recessed addition has ridge and apex sandstone stacks, along with various circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by a rubble-coped random rubble sandstone boundary wall to the west.
Local climate
Kilmicael Farm And Boundary Wall, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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