7 The Steadings, Church Road, Arrochar is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971.
7 The Steadings, Church Road, Arrochar
- WRENN ID
- plain-floor-reed
- 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
- 14 May 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 297 038
- Coordinates
- 56.1963, -4.74504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1774 and 1776, with more recent reconstruction and alterations, 7 The Steadings is a former U-plan steading that has been converted into housing. The building is constructed of rubble with harl and cement pointing, with ashlar margins and dressings, and reconstituted stone margins.
The north-east (principal courtyard) range is a seven-bay taller building with moulded cornices above the outer doors. It now has modern boarded doors and windows, as well as modern rooflights. The south-west (rear) elevation has an irregular arrangement of openings, including one door and two loft windows set under the eaves.
The returns feature a tall gable with round-headed cart arches at the centre; these arches have been filled in to create windows. A narrow round-headed window is located in the gablehead, and at the apex is a pedestal and ball finial, accompanied by a 1774 datestone. A gable on the south-east elevation features a 1776 datestone.
The north-west range, facing Church Road, is four bays and nearly symmetrical, with four large, slate-hung dormers arranged symmetrically. The courtyard elevation of this range is six bays, arranged as a three-bay house with a central door, flanking windows, and two symmetrically disposed dormers. A gable with a round-headed window is on the outer left side.
The south-east range’s courtyard elevation is five bays, complemented by two symmetrically disposed slate-hung dormers. A rear range of four bays runs back, with a gable containing a round-headed window on the outer right.
The building now has modern plate glass windows and a grey slate roof with modern rooflights. Ashlar coping is present at the skews and skewputts. There are tall, coped apex stacks and ridge stacks.
The steading originally served Inverioch/Arrochar House, which is now the Claymore Hotel (listed separately).
Local climate
7 The Steadings, Church Road, Arrochar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,930 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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