Reading Room, Hall House, Luss is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 March 1997. Hall, library.
Reading Room, Hall House, Luss
- WRENN ID
- second-storey-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1997
- Type
- Hall, library
- OS grid reference
- NS 359 929
- Coordinates
- 56.10073, -4.63852
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Reading Room at Hall House in Luss is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay cottage that once served as a library and reading room. The building features a rectangular plan library with a single-storey reading room at the rear, constructed from coursed whinstone and sandstone rubble, accented with red sandstone margins and dressings.
On the northwest elevation, the main entrance bay has a steep gable at the center, with a door at ground level, a letterbox fanlight above it, and a window situated above. The symmetrical flanking bays each contain a window on the ground floor and large canted tripartite dormers above.
The northeast elevation displays a broad gable on the outer right, with two windows symmetrically placed at ground level. Above these, a plaque inscribed "Library and Reading Room" is centrally located, with a window to the outer left on the first floor. The building features four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and sandstone corniced stacks with three octagonal cans.
The reading room, attached to the left, has a long asymmetrical T-plan range that is cement-rendered with red sandstone margins and slightly advanced eaves, showcasing exposed rafters. The northeast elevation of the reading room includes a broad gable to the left with two symmetrically placed windows, a lean-to bay on the outer left with a window, and a gabled porch in the re-entrant angle featuring a wooden chevron door and a window on the right return.
The southeast elevation has a broad gable to the outer left, a tripartite window at the center, ogee-headed windows, and a lean-to that advances to the outer right. The windows include two-pane over four-pane timber sash and case windows, as well as lying-pane timber sash and case windows on the gable. The roof is grey slate with lead flashing, and there are lead ventilators shaped like rockets along the ridge, with one ventilator concealed behind a pointed arch screen.
The property is enclosed by a low rubble boundary wall topped with semicircular coping.
Local climate
Reading Room, Hall House, Luss sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,750 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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