Gothic Folly, Barbreck Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Folly.
Gothic Folly, Barbreck Estate
- WRENN ID
- idle-hearth-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NM 833 068
- Coordinates
- 56.20505, -5.49434
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gothic Folly at Barbreck Estate, built around 1795, is a three-bay screen wall designed in the Gothic style. It features three pointed-arch openings with roll-moulded surrounds and a corbelled, crenellated parapet. The structure is made of rubble with sandstone ashlar facings.
Local climate
Gothic Folly, Barbreck Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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