Belmore House, Faslane is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1994. Villa.
Belmore House, Faslane
- WRENN ID
- plain-screen-hawk
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1994
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 248 892
- Coordinates
- 56.06425, -4.81503
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Belmore House in Faslane is an Italianate villa that originated in the early 19th century but underwent significant remodeling and enlargement in 1856. It was refurbished again in 1984 by the Property Services Agency. The building is two stories tall and has an asymmetrical L-shaped plan. Its exterior is harled with yellow sandstone margins and dressings, featuring projecting bracketed eaves, a base course, and round-arched windows.
On the south elevation, there are seven bays. To the left, there is a three-stage campanile entrance tower, which includes a corniced and pilastered door with an urn balustrade and a two-leaf panelled door. Above it, there is a window on the first floor and a tripartite arcade window on the upper floor, topped with a piended roof. To the outer left, there is a taller, narrow four-stage square tower with narrow windows. The lower four-bay block to the right has a fifth gabled bay at the outer right, with windows arranged as tripartite-single-single-bipartite on each floor, and a bipartite window at the ground level of the gable. An oriel window features a large arched window on the first floor.
The west elevation consists of a four-bay block with a narrow entrance tower recessed to the outer right. The outer left has a gable with a full-height canted bay and a small arched window in the gablehead. The center two bays contain architraved bipartite windows, while the outer right gable has a broad canted window at the ground level, a battered base, and a balustrade. Above, there is a three-light arcade window on the first floor and a single arched window in the gablehead.
The villa features four-pane and plate glass sash and case windows with secondary glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes Velux rooflights. The chimneys were removed during the refurbishment.
Inside, the building was modernized in 1984 and now has a contemporary office interior with suspended ceilings and other modern features.
Local climate
Belmore House, Faslane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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