Laundry Cottage, Mount Stuart House is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Laundry cottage, storage. 1 related planning application.
Laundry Cottage, Mount Stuart House
- WRENN ID
- half-railing-crimson
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Laundry cottage, storage
- Address
- Laundry Cottage, Mount Stuart House, PA20 9LR
- OS grid reference
- NS 107 594
- Coordinates
- 55.79125, -5.01979
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Laundry Cottage, part of Mount Stuart House, dates from the late 18th century and has undergone later alterations. This single-storey building features a 15-bay former laundry wing arranged in a stepped configuration of 6-5-4, adapting to the sloping site. It has been converted for mixed use, serving as both residential and storage space. The exterior is finished in whitewashed harl, with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings to the right of the center where the store is located. Notable architectural details include a moulded eaves course, strip quoins, painted dressings to the left of the center where the cottage is situated, and chamfered openings.
On the south (entrance) elevation, there are single windows in four bays to the outer right. The central five-bay block features a boarded timber door in the outer right bay and single windows in the remaining bays to the left. To the outer left, there is a six-bay block that includes boarded openings in the penultimate bay and the outer left bay, a single window offset to the left of center, a boarded timber door offset to the right, and single windows in the remaining two bays to the right.
The building predominantly has 12- and 16-pane timber sash and case glazing, with a louvred ventilation opening in the penultimate bay to the outer right (store). The roof is covered with graded grey slate piends, and there are replacement rainwater goods, coped ridge stacks, and circular cans.
Local climate
Laundry Cottage, Mount Stuart House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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