Camsail is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1995. House.
Camsail
- WRENN ID
- small-spire-tarn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1995
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 252 817
- Coordinates
- 55.9971, -4.80417
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Camsail is a mid 19th century, two-storey, three-bay gabled house with a later 19th century bay addition on the outer left, featuring a rambling plan. The exterior is finished in grey-painted harl with painted sandstone margins and dressings, and it has advanced eaves with exposed rafters.
On the southeast (main) elevation, the original three-bay house has a broad gable on the left side. The later 19th century addition includes a canted window at ground level with a slate roof and a window above it. There is a basket-arched doorway leading to a corniced porch in the re-entrant angle at the center, which features a blocking course, a four-panelled door, and a two-leaf fanlight above. A small window is positioned above the doorway. The gable on the outer right breaks the eaves, and there is a window at ground level. The later bay on the outer left is slightly recessed and includes a canted window at ground level with a slate roof and a window above, with the gable also breaking the eaves.
The house features twelve 12-pane sash and case windows, along with four-pane plate glass sash and case windows in the canted windows and the outer left bay. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashings, with sandstone ashlar corniced stacks topped with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Camsail sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Well House, Gallowhill, Rosneath Castle Policies
- Portkill Lodge, Portkil House
- Cottage, Portkil House
- Bathwell, Rosneath Castle Policies
- Portkil Battery, 6-inch battery
- Easter Garth, Rosneath Village
- Portkil Battery, 4.7-inch QF battery
- Old Parish Church'), Rosneath Village (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 5604, 'Rosneath, St Modan's Old Church Graveyard And Boundary Walls
- St Modan's Parish Church, Rosneath
- Police Station, Rosneath Village