Including Cobbled Courtyard, Drimsynie Court 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. Courtyard. 1 related planning application.

Including Cobbled Courtyard, Drimsynie Court

WRENN ID
swift-cobalt-russet
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
Courtyard
OS grid reference
NN 194 016
Coordinates
56.17318, -4.90938
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Drimsynie Court is a late 18th and early 19th century courtyard building, originally designed as offices, stables and other support buildings for Drimsynie House (which is separately listed). The courtyard predates the present house and is located several hundred yards to the northeast of it. It is now surrounded by a large modern chalet park. The building has been largely converted into residential and office use, with a modern extension to the east side.

The symmetrical entrance front is on the southeast elevation and features a central, two-story, pedimented pavilion topped by a pennant-shaped weather vane. A round-arched opening (pend) leads into the courtyard. Flanking the pend are single-story, two-bay sections with round-headed windows, which connect to two-story pavilions with piended roofs. The ground floor of these pavilions has tripartite windows, while the first floor has thermal windows. These pavilions likely originally contained offices and possibly living accommodation for the coachman or head groom.

The remainder of the courtyard is single-story, with two dormer windows (likely later additions) breaking the roofline on the inner courtyard side. Most window and door openings on both the inner and outer elevations have been altered. However, the centre of the west range retains a single-story, piend-roofed pavilion with an original segmentally-headed carriage arch.

A modern single-story extension was added to the outer east range in the later 20th century, along with a smaller addition to the far left of the entrance elevation.

Access to the interior was not possible during a resurvey in 2004.

The centre of the entrance elevation is built with ashlar stone, while the remainder is harled, with painted, narrow droved quoins and margins where they remain. Most windows are modern uPVC or timber; a few original timber sash and case windows survive. The roofs are pitched, with piended roofs on the pavilions. The majority of the roofing is graded slate, with flat roofs on the modern extensions. Wallhead stacks are present on both outer pavilions – the east stack is coped and harled, while the west stack is corniced painted ashlar, both topped with circular cans. Rainwater goods are a mix of plastic and cast iron.

Local climate

Including Cobbled Courtyard, Drimsynie Court sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,010 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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