Well House, Bealach An Fhuarain, Inveraray Castle Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Well-house.
Well House, Bealach An Fhuarain, Inveraray Castle Estate
- WRENN ID
- veiled-jamb-cedar
- 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
- Well-house
- OS grid reference
- NN 088 085
- Coordinates
- 56.23105, -5.08506
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Well House, located at Bealach An Fhuarain on the Inveraray Castle Estate, is a Classical structure attributed to William Adam, built between 1747 and 1748, with a gate added in 1803. The well-house has a roughly square plan and is set into the hillside. It features droved chlorite schist ashlar masonry, complemented by polished and vermiculated dressings, a deep plinth, and an eaves course. The principal elevation faces southeast and includes a broad, round-arched opening with channelled, vermiculated voussoirs, topped by a blocked pediment with a ball finial. Inside, the barrel-vaulted space contains a basin carved from the rocky outcrop and has a paved floor with a serpentine overflow channel. The stone slab roof adds to its character. The walls display 18th century incised graffiti, including a date of 1757.
Local climate
Well House, Bealach An Fhuarain, Inveraray Castle Estate 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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