Ardencaple House, Seil is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House.
Ardencaple House, Seil
- WRENN ID
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- 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 763 193
- Coordinates
- 56.31364, -5.61733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardencaple House is an 18th-century traditional building featuring two storeys and a garret, with a three-bay front. The exterior is harled, and it has a gabled, slated roof with piended dormers. There is a platform-roofed porch and a semi-circular stair tower at the rear. The south wing has one and a half storeys and includes gabled dormers. The building may incorporate earlier work.
Local climate
Ardencaple House, Seil sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,300 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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