Airds House is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Airds House
- WRENN ID
- deep-joist-scarlet
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Address
- Airds House, PA38 4DQ
- OS grid reference
- NM 909 449
- Coordinates
- 56.55014, -5.4027
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Airds House, dated 1738, is a three-storey building with five bays, featuring a harled exterior. It has a piended slated roof, dressed stone chimneys, a moulded eaves course, and corner stones. The central pavilion includes a dressed stone pediment with a Campbell armorial panel, flanked by oculi, and a broken pediment above a second-storey window. There is also a segmental pediment, inscribed with '1738', over a pilastered doorway.
Two outlying pavilions, each two storeys high with two bays at their pedimented ends, feature oculi and band-courses. These pavilions are linked to the main building by quadrant walls, which have ball-finials and lean-to-roofed corridors behind them.
At the rear and southeast end, there are additions including a billiard room and a gun room, both dated 1858. The interiors of Airds House are very fine, featuring a winding stair, a morning room, a dining room, and more.
Local climate
Airds House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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