Ardgowan House is a Grade A listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Mansion. 8 related planning applications.
Ardgowan House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-roof-thunder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Ardgowan House, PA16 0DW
- OS grid reference
- NS 207 730
- Coordinates
- 55.91694, -4.86985
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardgowan House is a mansion built between 1799 and 1801, featuring two storeys, a basement, and attics in a Renaissance style. The building has an extensive symmetrical front with a three-storey central block that is pedimented. A Gothic Decorated Revival chapel is located at the northern wing. The architect for the original design was possibly Cairncross. There is a porte-cochere that is a later addition, and in 1831, further additions were made by William Burn.
Local climate
Ardgowan House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,690 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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