West Cottage, Langalchorad Cottages, Kingarth is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1998.
West Cottage, Langalchorad Cottages, Kingarth
- WRENN ID
- strange-courtyard-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- OS grid reference
- NS 095 563
- Coordinates
- 55.76289, -5.03721
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is an outbuilding associated with West Cottage, part of Langalchorad Cottages in Kingarth, and it dates back to 1873. It consists of a pair of single-storey cottages with an attic, arranged in a symmetrical four-bay block. The structure is made of red brick and features painted polychrome detailing, including painted quoins and long and short surrounds to the slight segmental-arched openings. Other architectural elements include a raised eaves course, timber bargeboards, and projecting cills.
The northern entrance elevation has gabled entrance porches located in the outer left and right bays, each with boarded timber doors and 4-pane fanlights above. The two central bays contain bipartite windows at ground level, while above them are bipartite dormers with ball-finialed gables. The windows throughout the building are fitted with 8-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features polychrome apex stacks on the east and west sides, with a square stack on the east and circular stacks on the west.
The interiors were not seen in 1996. The outbuilding at the rear has boarded timber openings in three bays to the left of the center and single windows in the remaining bays to the right, featuring 6-pane casement glazing. It also has a graded grey slate roof.
Local climate
West Cottage, Langalchorad Cottages, Kingarth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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