Weighbridge House, Guildford Square, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Weighing house.
Weighbridge House, Guildford Square, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- distant-column-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Weighing house
- OS grid reference
- NS 088 647
- Coordinates
- 55.83782, -5.05372
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Weighbridge House, located in Guildford Square, Rothesay, Bute, is a former weighing house from the later 19th century. It has a rectangular plan, is a single storey, and consists of a single bay. In the late 20th century, it was converted into a retail outlet. The building features glazed bricks with red sandstone ashlar detailing, a raised base course, bracketed timber eaves, shouldered-arch openings, and ashlar cills. There is a weighing platform on the side.
On the entrance elevation, there is a boarded timber door that is off-set to the right of centre, with a narrow window off-set to the left. The south side elevation has a tripartite window at the centre and a rectangular weighing platform at the front, which is inscribed "H Pooley & Son Ld Birmingham." The rear elevation features a narrow window off-set to the right of centre and a stepped stack to the left. The north side elevation also has a tripartite window at the centre.
The building has refurbished timber casements and sash and case windows, a graded grey slate piended roof, and foliate cast-iron brattishing. There is a square-plan coped wallhead stack to the northwest and a single circular can. Additionally, there is a rectangular iron weigh bridge set into the ground.
Local climate
Weighbridge House, Guildford Square, Rothesay, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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