Ballimore House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. House.
Ballimore House
- WRENN ID
- carved-gable-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NR 923 833
- Coordinates
- 55.99786, -5.33125
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ballimore House is a later 19th century Scots Baronial style building. It has two storeys, a low floor, and a garret. The exterior features stugged ashlar with dressed face-work. There is a platform roof behind a crenellated parapet, and the building includes angle turrets and moulded window architraves. A high crenellated porte-cochere is present, which has a plaster ribbed vault. To the east, there are lower offices.
Local climate
Ballimore House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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