Farmsteading, Auchensail Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1996.

Farmsteading, Auchensail Farm

WRENN ID
noble-grate-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
23 February 1996
OS grid reference
NS 342 795
Coordinates
55.98041, -4.65821
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Auchensail Farm is a later 19th century farmhouse that has been built onto an earlier 19th century cottage and steading. The structure is single storey with an attic and features a 3-bay rectangular-plan farmhouse alongside a long single storey rectangular-plan steading at the rear, creating a long T-plan layout. The house is harled and whitewashed, while the steading is made of whitewashed rubble.

On the southwest elevation, the farmhouse has a single storey and attic design. It features a boarded door at the center with a letterbox fanlight above, flanked by windows. Gabled dormerheads are symmetrically placed above the main façade.

The southeast elevation, facing the road, shows the gable of the farmhouse to the left with a lower wing adjoining the earlier building. This long elevation originally included a cottage at the left end and outbuildings to the right; however, the outer right end of the steading has now collapsed, leaving eight bays. The windows on this elevation are small and plain, and there are ridge stacks at the left end.

The northwest elevation, which is the rear, is constructed of rubble and has a lower single storey gabled wing at the outer right. All the windows are currently boarded up, and the grey slate roof shows signs of some repatching.

Local climate

Farmsteading, Auchensail Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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