Town House, Front Street West, Inveraray is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.

Town House, Front Street West, Inveraray

WRENN ID
small-column-elm
Grade
A
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
House
Address
Town House, Front Street West, Inveraray, PA32 8UY
OS grid reference
NN 096 085
Coordinates
56.23137, -5.07284
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This Georgian town house, designed by John Adam, was begun in 1755 and is located on Front Street West in Inveraray. The building stands three storeys high and features a harled exterior. It has moulded window margins and a gabled slate roof. A prominent central pavilion projects from the main structure and is topped with a pediment and an oculus. The ground floor is rusticated and includes segmental arches.

Local climate

Town House, Front Street West, 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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