Houston House is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Mansion house. 2 related planning applications.

Houston House

WRENN ID
other-rampart-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 June 1971
Type
Mansion house
Address
Houston House, PA6 7AR
OS grid reference
NS 411 671
Coordinates
55.87136, -4.54049
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Houston House is a stone-built mansion with two storeys and a basement, featuring a slated roof. The northwest portion of the house is quite plain and may date from the 16th or 17th century, and it includes a doorpiece that is dated "1625." The southeast portion was constructed around 1872 in the Victorian Scots style, characterized by its porch, gables, and crow-stepped dormer heads.

Local climate

Houston House 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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