St Margaret's, Ascog, Bute is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998. Cottage.
St Margaret's, Ascog, Bute
- WRENN ID
- south-landing-thistle
- 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 February 1998
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 105 625
- Coordinates
- 55.81922, -5.02574
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Margaret's in Ascog, Bute, is an early 19th-century cottage designed in a symmetrical, plain classical style. It is two stories high with three bays and features a stair tower located at the rear. To the outer left, there is a single-storey addition that is recessed, and a pitched porch that is accessed from the side at the rear. The exterior is finished with whitewashed harl, and the openings have painted surrounds.
On the entrance elevation, there is a part-glazed timber panelled door at the center of the ground floor, with a single window above it on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays also has a single window on both floors. The single-storey addition to the left has a flat roof.
The north side elevation includes a single window on the first floor, which is offset to the left of center. There is a door and a flanking window in the porch addition on the outer right, with the stair tower positioned behind it.
The cottage features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof, and coped rendered apex stacks with various circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
St Margaret's, Ascog, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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