Prison Wall, Crown Point, Inveraray is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. Wall.
Prison Wall, Crown Point, Inveraray
- WRENN ID
- waning-corbel-pearl
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1966
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- NN 096 083
- Coordinates
- 56.22976, -5.07192
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The prison wall at Crown Point in Inveraray was built in 1820 and designed by James Gillespie Graham. It features massive coursed stonework. The wall includes a large semi-circular bastion at the center of the loch front, flanked by two smaller bastions at the corners.
Local climate
Prison Wall, Crown Point, Inveraray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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