Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Oakfield Bridge House, Crinan Canal is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Bridge keeper's house.
Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Oakfield Bridge House, Crinan Canal
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rotunda-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Bridge keeper's house
- OS grid reference
- NR 856 879
- Coordinates
- 56.03617, -5.44254
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bridge Keeper's Cottage, located beside Oakfield swing-bridge on the Crinan Canal near Lochgilphead, dates from around 1800 with a later addition to the north. This rectangular-plan building was originally a bridge keeper's house and is situated on a steeply sloping canal bank, featuring a large basement section at the lower level to the rear. The exterior is constructed of rubble and is partially rendered.
The cottage has a single-storey and attic design, presenting a 4-bay appearance to the west elevation that faces the canal. It features a simple classical doorway with pilasters and a lintel. An early 19th century piended-roof addition is present on the north gable, along with a lean-to porch addition to the left. The rear elevation, which faces Loch Gilp, is deep and two-storey due to the falling ground. It includes a large segmental-arch doorway with double doors, flanked by single windows, and a blind recess above that is also flanked by two further windows.
Local climate
Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Oakfield Bridge House, Crinan Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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