Rockbank Including Boundary Walls, Midge Lane, Strone is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 2006. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Rockbank Including Boundary Walls, Midge Lane, Strone
- WRENN ID
- lesser-corbel-saffron
- 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
- 4 May 2006
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Rockbank Including Boundary Walls, Midge Lane, Strone, PA23 8RX
- OS grid reference
- NS 183 809
- Coordinates
- 55.98682, -4.91304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rockbank is a two-storey, three-bay gable-fronted villa built in the earlier to mid-19th century, located on the south side of Midge Lane and facing the Holy Loch. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century single-storey and attic rectangular coach house. The villa is made of harled rubble with sandstone dressings, featuring a slate roof and stone chimney stacks topped with polygonal clay cans at the gables. The windows are mainly round-headed timber sash and case with lying-panes.
The main (south) elevation has a gable on the left, which includes a hood-moulded window on the first floor and a framed window below. To the right, there is a pitch-roofed half-dormer, and in the centre, a slated-cheek dormer. A flat-roofed cast iron entrance porch with brattishing and fretwork arcades is positioned centrally. The gables are adorned with decorative bargeboarding. Some features at the rear of the house may have been added later, such as the wide tripartite dormers. The interior of the house was not inspected in 2004 or 2016.
The coach house features a central gable with a square-headed cart door and a hayloft above. Its rear (south) elevation has a pair of gables. Constructed in rubble stone, it has some brick repairs on the rear openings and a piended roof that is slated. The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The interior, seen in 2016, is divided into two sections and includes a loft with a timber floor.
Surrounding the property are rubble boundary walls to the east, west, and south. The southern wall has a central opening with a gate that provides access to the shore of the Holy Loch.
Local climate
Rockbank Including Boundary Walls, Midge Lane, Strone sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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