Old Boathouse, Ardtornish Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Boathouse.
Old Boathouse, Ardtornish Estate
- WRENN ID
- muted-steel-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Boathouse
- OS grid reference
- NM 700 472
- Coordinates
- 56.56105, -5.74377
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Boathouse, located on the Ardtornish Estate, was built in 1853. It is a single-storey T-plan structure made of rubble, featuring tooled rubble dressings. The building is positioned on a natural rocky platform, which includes an additional rubble platform and a landward causeway supported by low rubble walls.
On the west side, there is a high pointed-headed boat entrance, and the building is illuminated by pointed-headed lancets of varying lengths, with some being blind lancets. There is also a blind pointed-headed arch near the center of the north elevation.
At the center of the south side, there is a projecting gabled wing that has pedestrian entrances at the southeast and southwest re-entrant angles, although the southwest entrance is blocked. The east gable has a wide opening that is boarded up. The roof is made of slate with a tiled ridge.
Local climate
Old Boathouse, Ardtornish Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,030 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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