Portnahaven School, Portnahaven is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1981. School. 3 related planning applications.
Portnahaven School, Portnahaven
- WRENN ID
- small-truss-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- Portnahaven School, Portnahaven, PA47 7SG
- OS grid reference
- NR 171 521
- Coordinates
- 55.68032, -6.50088
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Portnahaven School, designed by architect William Railton of Kilmarnock, was built in 1878. It is a single-storey school with a two-storey detached schoolhouse to the south. The building is constructed of rubble with yellow ashlar dressings.
The school features three broad bays, with the central bay being advanced and gabled. It includes three closely spaced windows, with a tall central light, and is flanked by a curved porch that provides separate entrances for boys and girls in the re-entrant angle. The outer bays have single windows, and the building has straight skews and end stacks.
The schoolhouse also has three bays, with a door located in a central projecting gabled porch and a narrow window above it. Like the school, it has straight skews and end stacks. Most of the original lying-pane glazing remains intact, and both buildings have slated roofs.
Local climate
Portnahaven School, Portnahaven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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