Summerhouse, 18 Abercromby Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Summer house.

Summerhouse, 18 Abercromby Street West, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
stark-mullion-rush
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 June 1993
Type
Summer house
OS grid reference
NS 294 833
Coordinates
56.01226, -4.73692
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a later 19th century octagonal-plan summerhouse located at 18 Abercromby Street West in Helensburgh. The structure is built of rubble and painted white. It features a doorway on the south side with a boarded door, and there are single pointed-arch windows on either side of the doorway. The roof is flat with a finial on top.

Local climate

Summerhouse, 18 Abercromby Street West, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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