Breakwater, Ardrishaig is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Harbour.
Breakwater, Ardrishaig
- WRENN ID
- endless-spandrel-willow
- 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
- Harbour
- OS grid reference
- NR 854 852
- Coordinates
- 56.01221, -5.44408
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Breakwater at Ardrishaig is a harbour structure built in 1800, with 19th century alterations. It includes a breakwater and lighthouse, as well as a pier and slipway, designed to serve and protect the sea-lock entrance to the Crinan Canal.
The breakwater, added around 1817, features a 50-metre curving extension to the south, constructed of rubble with a parapet wall on the south side. Steps are cut into both the north and south sides. The lighthouse, built circa 1878, is a cylindrical stone tower located at the end of the south breakwater. It has bull-nosed banding at the top and a steel circular-section lantern with triangular panes of curved glass. The lantern is topped with a conical roof that includes a ventilator, and there are cast-iron brackets above and below the glazing on the south side of the lantern.
The pier and slipway, added around 1837, are made of whinstone rubble on the north side of the harbour, featuring a later concrete scree surface. The rubble slipway shelves into the water, and the pier has a timber pile extension that was added around 1878.
Local climate
Breakwater, Ardrishaig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 15 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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