Argyle Cottage, Main Street, Renton is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1996. Cottage.

Argyle Cottage, Main Street, Renton

WRENN ID
final-landing-mallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1996
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 388 781
Coordinates
55.96903, -4.5836
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Argyle Cottage is an earlier 19th century single-storey cottage with a rectangular plan, featuring three bays. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and includes a base course, blocking course, and pilaster quoins.

The main elevation has a centrally located door with pilasters and a depressed pediment. The door is a modern two-leaf boarded type with a plate glass fanlight above it, flanked by windows. The windows are modern multipaned. The cottage has a grey slate roof with ashlar coping along the skews and small corniced apex stacks.

Additionally, there is a low boundary plinth wall with cast-iron railings surrounding the property.

Local climate

Argyle Cottage, Main Street, Renton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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