Gate piers, Glenlora House is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980.
Gate piers, Glenlora House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-jade-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1980
- OS grid reference
- NS 331 581
- Coordinates
- 55.78807, -4.66308
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glenlora House, built around 1840, is an asymmetrical two-storey, four-bay house featuring a slightly advanced, pedimented three-storey entrance bay and a low two-storey, two-bay wing to the north. The house is constructed of ashlar stone. The entrance includes a recessed door with sidelights, approached by balustraded steps and a balustraded porch supported by two pairs of Roman Doric columns. Above the porch, there are corniced, round-headed bipartite windows. The second floor displays urns recessed in the curved angles, with one window, an eaves band, angle margins, a mutule cornice, and a blank crest to the pediment. The left bay features a projecting balustraded ground floor bipartite window, while the right bay has a round-headed tripartite window. The first floor has three four-pane sash windows, and sash windows are used throughout the building. It has deep projecting eaves, single and grouped corniced stacks, and a piended slate roof that is gabled over the central bay. The low wing to the north is made of coursed squared whinstone with ashlar dressings and has a gabled outer bay with a variety of windows. The south elevation features a slightly advanced, pedimented left bay with single, bipartite, and canted windows.
Inside, there is some decorative plasterwork and late 19th-century wooden panelling. The property also includes square, panelled gatepiers with mutule cornices and cast-iron gates.
Additionally, there is a single span round-arched bridge, likely built around the same time as the house, which crosses a deep gully. The bridge is made of coursed rubble with a balustraded parapet, square piers, and a splayed south approach, all constructed of ashlar stone.
Local climate
Gate piers, Glenlora House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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