Kilmartin Primary School is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 1993. Primary school. 6 related planning applications.

Kilmartin Primary School

WRENN ID
tired-hall-stoat
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 October 1993
Type
Primary school
Address
Kilmartin Primary School, PA31 8QF
OS grid reference
NR 829 981
Coordinates
56.12615, -5.49453
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kilmartin Primary School, designed by James G Davis and dated 1840, is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a near-symmetrical gabled design. The exterior is constructed from snecked rubble with cherry caulking and ashlar dressings, showcasing window margins, hoodmoulds, quoin strips, and overhanging bracketed eaves.

The entrance elevation includes a broad five-bay boarded timber porch at the center, which has a doorway flanked by two windows on each side, all beneath a half-pitched slate roof. Above the porch, there is a gabled ashlar dormer that breaks the eaves, with a cast-iron rooflight to the right. Taller, single gabled bays are located on either side of the porch; the right bay has a window at both the ground and attic levels, while the left bay features a canted window with ashlar mullions at the ground level and an inscribed plaque above the attic window. A window is set in a recessed bay on the far left, and the outer right side has a doorway and two windows, with a flat-roofed dormer above.

Both side elevations are characterized by a four-light mullioned and transomed window at the ground level, with a loop below the apex. The rear elevation is asymmetrical, featuring gabled bays and a modern flat-roofed extension. It has fixed small-pane timber framed windows with top hoppers, and some windows are fitted with timber casements. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the building has mostly rendered surfaces with coped stacks, including a tall corniced sandstone stack at the rear with an offset base.

The boundary wall surrounding the property is made of rubble and features a semi-circular coping.

Local climate

Kilmartin Primary School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,880 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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