Turnalt House is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House.

Turnalt House

WRENN ID
turning-basalt-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NM 841 079
Coordinates
56.21495, -5.48282
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Turnalt House is a late 18th century Georgian building featuring two storeys and an attic. It is constructed from rubble and has a piended slate roof with piended dormers and high chimneys. The building has a projecting central pavilion with a pediment and a Palladian window, along with a piended porch that includes round-headed windows.

To the sides, there are low wings connected to the main block, which also have Palladian windows. At the rear, there is a farm-steading yard that includes a single-storey structure made of rubble, featuring gabled and piended slate roofs and segmental arches.

Local climate

Turnalt House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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