Islay House, Islay is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Islay House, Islay
- WRENN ID
- upper-hearth-solstice
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Islay House, Islay, PA44 7NZ
- OS grid reference
- NR 333 628
- Coordinates
- 55.78483, -6.25405
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Islay House is a significant building located on Islay, originally constructed around 1680, with later alterations including enlarged window openings. The main block stands three storeys high, while two wings were added in 1737, each two storeys with an attic. The house features a traditional harled exterior, gabled roofs, and slate roofing with crow-stepped gables. It includes piended dormers and polygonal stair-towers, with the eastern stair-tower added around 1760. The design incorporates a flat roof with a balustraded parapet, band-courses, and Palladian windows.
Inside, the house boasts a splendid Georgian interior, highlighted by winding stairs and a drawing room. Additional offices were constructed at the southeast and rear of the property between 1841 and 1845 by architect William Playfair, showcasing a Scottish style with stugged ashlar, gabled roofs, slate roofing, and dormers. A two-storey-and-attic nursery wing, built in 1910, replaced part of Playfair's offices and screens the rear of the house. There is also a low addition at the northwest, serving as the head gamekeeper's home.
Local climate
Islay House, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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