Barbreck House is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House.
Barbreck House
- WRENN ID
- slow-hinge-thyme
- Grade
- A
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NM 830 064
- Coordinates
- 56.20064, -5.4984
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barbreck House, dated 1790, is a Georgian building with three storeys. It has a rendered front and rear, harled ends, and a piended slate roof with piended dormers at the ends.
The building features a projecting central pavilion made of ashlar, complete with a pediment, a coat of arms, a motto, and the date 1790, along with urns at the vertex and corners. It also has a moulded eaves course, a string course, and prominent quoins. At the rear, there is another projecting central pavilion with a pediment and a panel inscribed "Major General John Campbell of Barbreck and Janet Colquhoun, his spouse, 1790," as well as a piended wing.
Inside, Barbreck House boasts fine interiors, including a good staircase, chimney-pieces, and moulded plaster ceilings and friezes.
To the north and south of the main building, there are two one-storey gabled offices that feature urns, oculi, and Palladian windows. These offices are linked to the main block by screen walls with blind segmental arches. Additionally, there is a farm-steading around the yard at the rear, which is one storey with a loft, constructed of rubble and topped with a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Barbreck House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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