South Quay, Keills Port is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1986. Quay.
South Quay, Keills Port
- WRENN ID
- lunar-crypt-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1986
- Type
- Quay
- OS grid reference
- NR 688 806
- Coordinates
- 55.96344, -5.70529
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Quay at Keills Port is an 1821 structure that may have been engineered by Thomas Telford, built by the Parliamentary Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges. This quay is designed in an L-shape, hugging the rock edge at the corner of a small natural harbour inlet, and it slopes evenly downwards towards the sea. The quay is constructed from coursed rubble, with the top course set vertically and featuring narrow edges facing outward, interlocked diagonally at an angle. There are iron runner ties at the edges, which may have been added later, and wrought iron tying rings, some of which are now missing.
Local climate
South Quay, Keills Port sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,800 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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