Anchorage, Hall Road, Rhu is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1994. Cottage.

Anchorage, Hall Road, Rhu

WRENN ID
crumbling-mortar-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1994
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 267 841
Coordinates
56.01896, -4.78186
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Anchorage is a later 19th century single-storey and attic cottage with a symmetrical, rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior features coursed rubble with polished pink sandstone margins and dressings, and the side elevations are harl-pointed with large, unusual rubble blocks. It has a base course, long and short ashlar quoins, and stop-chamfered arrises to the margins. The openings have shoulder arches, and the first-floor windows are round-headed with timber frames. The eaves project, revealing exposed rafters.

On the north elevation, there is a central door with four panels and a plate glass fanlight, flanked by bipartite windows. The dormers feature broad gabled bipartite heads with floral medallions at the center of the gablehead, and there is a small round-headed dormer in the center with a lead roof. The east and west elevations have broad gables with windows on the ground and first floors at the rear, and there is a helm-roofed single-storey addition at the back.

The windows are plate glass sash and case, and the roof is covered in grey slate with overhanging eaves. Broad, corniced sandstone stacks with octagonal cans complete the roofline. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

Anchorage, Hall Road, Rhu sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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