Great Shade, Saw Mill, Malt Land, 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. Saw mill, house.

Great Shade, Saw Mill, Malt Land, Inveraray Castle Estate

WRENN ID
shifting-ember-saffron
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
Saw mill, house
OS grid reference
NN 089 099
Coordinates
56.24354, -5.08544
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Great Shade is an 18th-century Georgian building located on the Saw Mill and Malt Land of the Inveraray Castle Estate. It is two storeys high, constructed with harled walls and features a piended roof. The building has five high round-arched recesses on both sides, with windows located on the upper storey. Inside, there are great stone piers on the ground floor that support the first floor.

Local climate

Great Shade, Saw Mill, Malt Land, 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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