Luachrach Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 2004. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Luachrach Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-thatch-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 2004
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Luachrach Cottage is a largely unaltered Arts and Crafts style cottage designed by Robert Lorimer in 1926, located in picturesque surroundings beside Loch Luachrach. The building is a single-storey and attic square-plan structure with a small single-storey service wing to the northeast. It features rendered brick with sandstone cills and multi-paned timber casement windows throughout. The shallow pyramidal grey slate roof has overhanging eaves and distinctive flat-headed dormers with centered rose detailing on the lead flashing. There are plain rendered stacks on the southwest and northeast sides, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
The entrance elevation faces away from the loch towards rising ground to the southeast, featuring a broad, shallow arched porch with a twin-leaf stylized timber door and a dormer above. The windows on the ground outer bays include a horizontally set window on the left close to the eaves and a vertically set window on the right, with the service wing located to the far right. The lochside elevation to the southwest has a centered advanced box window (with the glazing replaced in the front section) topped by an ogee-shaped roof at the eaves, flanked by windows on both the ground and attic levels. A timber veranda is positioned against the box window on the left, wrapping around to the northwest elevation, where the upper section has been glazed in. The northwest elevation is similar to the southwest, except for the inclusion of French doors under the veranda on the right outer bay and the service wing on the far left. The northeast elevation features a large dormer window set close to the eaves, also with an ogee-shaped roof at the eaves.
Inside, the hallway is located to the southeast, leading to an impressive timber-panelled principal room that occupies a large part of the ground floor, with a butler's pantry and kitchen situated in the service wing to the northeast. The bedrooms on the first floor are not visible from the description provided (2004).
Additionally, there is a garage set to the northeast of the house, which is rendered and features various openings, a piended grey slate roof with overhanging eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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