The Old Jail, Inveraray is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. Jail.
The Old Jail, Inveraray
- WRENN ID
- grim-rood-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1966
- Type
- Jail
- OS grid reference
- NN 096 083
- Coordinates
- 56.22994, -5.07206
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Jail in Inveraray, built around 1820, is a plain Georgian structure designed by J Gillespie-Graham and features two storeys. The building is constructed of coursed rubble, with some areas harled, and has a piended slate roof. It has projecting pavilions on two sides and a moulded eaves course. The windows are fitted with iron bars. The interior was altered in 1841, creating two to three barrel-vaulted cells that open off a central corridor on both floors.
Local climate
The Old Jail, Inveraray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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