Aldessan House, Clachan Of Campsie is a Grade B listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 August 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.

Aldessan House, Clachan Of Campsie

WRENN ID
crumbling-steeple-khaki
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Dunbartonshire
Constituency
Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 August 1977
Type
House
Address
Aldessan House, Clachan Of Campsie, G66 7AB
OS grid reference
NS 610 796
Coordinates
55.98922, -4.22887
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Aldessan House is a laird's house built around 1830. It has two storeys with roughcast walls, painted margins, and thin corner pilaster strips. The eaves cornice and slate roof feature end bargeboards and stone stacks, with dormers located at the rear. The entrance is highlighted by a Doric pilaster doorpiece with decorative bosses at the ends of the frieze. The house has sash windows, with glazing bars present only on the rear. A projecting stair with a hipped roof is located on the rear elevation. Additionally, there is a low one-storey cottage range attached to the right gable end.

Local climate

Aldessan House, Clachan Of Campsie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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