Caolas Ferry House, Ardtornish Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. House.
Caolas Ferry House, Ardtornish Estate
- WRENN ID
- small-stone-dew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NM 682 447
- Coordinates
- 56.53726, -5.77095
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caolas Ferry House, located on the Ardtornish Estate, was designed by Samuel Barham in 1879. This single-storey, symmetrical house features five bays. The entrance is situated on the left side, with a former waiting room, while another entrance is on the right. The exterior is made of rendered concrete and faces west.
The house has a wide projecting bay window with a sloping slated roof, and the entrances are positioned in a re-entrant of this bay. Each entrance is flanked by tripartite windows, and there is a hoodmoulded window light on the north return gable. A similar window, which is blocked, is found in the south return gable beneath a slated canopy. The property includes multi-pane sash windows, decorative barge-boards with apex pendant finials, deep eaves supported by curved timber brackets, and a corniced central stack. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Caolas Ferry House, Ardtornish Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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