St Fillan's R.C. Church And School, Fourwindings, Houston is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Church, presbytery, school.

St Fillan's R.C. Church And School, Fourwindings, Houston

WRENN ID
peeling-alcove-wagtail
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 August 1977
Type
Church, presbytery, school
OS grid reference
NS 405 666
Coordinates
55.86632, -4.54899
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Fillan's Roman Catholic Church and School in Fourwindings, Houston, is a simple and austere building. The church, which opened on March 7, 1841, features a cement-rendered exterior and a slated roof, along with a gable-belfry. The presbytery is 1.5 storeys high, also cement rendered with a pilastered doorway and a slated roof. The school, built around 1840, with later alterations in 1872 and 1901, is a two-storey structure, similarly cement rendered and slated.

Local climate

St Fillan's R.C. Church And School, Fourwindings, Houston sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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