House, Shore Street, Bowmore, Islay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
House, Shore Street, Bowmore, Islay
- WRENN ID
- woven-threshold-rush
- Grade
- B
- 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
- House, Shore Street, Bowmore, Islay, PA43 7LB
- OS grid reference
- NR 311 598
- Coordinates
- 55.75723, -6.28637
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This house, located on Shore Street in Bowmore, Islay, dates from the later 18th century and features a traditional design. It has two storeys and is constructed of rubble with a rendered front. The building has a gabled slate roof with skews. At the rear, there is a later addition consisting of a one-storey-and-attic wing with a pantile roof extension. Inside, there is a turnpike stair that has a semi-conical roof situated in the re-entrant angle.
Local climate
House, Shore Street, Bowmore, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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