Charcoal Shed, Craleckan Ironworks, Furnace is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 2004. Charcoal store.
Charcoal Shed, Craleckan Ironworks, Furnace
- WRENN ID
- dark-screen-moth
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 2004
- Type
- Charcoal store
- OS grid reference
- NN 026 000
- Coordinates
- 56.15258, -5.17963
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Charcoal Shed at Craleckan Ironworks is an impressive rectangular-plan structure built in the mid-18th century, originally serving as a charcoal store. It is situated on a slope to the northeast and has undergone later alterations. Constructed as part of an iron smelting works by Duddon & Co of Cumbria, it was converted into a Drill Hall in the 1880s. The southwest features a large doorway that has likely been enlarged. There are four inserted window openings on the northwest side and two on the southeast. A former loading door is still visible on the northeast. The gable ends have been remodeled to create shallow segmental-ended gables, and the roof is covered with corrugated iron in a segmental shape.
Local climate
Charcoal Shed, Craleckan Ironworks, Furnace sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,920 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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