Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Kilmahumaig, Crinan Canal is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Cottage.
Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Kilmahumaig, Crinan Canal
- WRENN ID
- leaning-timber-dale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NR 793 937
- Coordinates
- 56.08557, -5.54846
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bridge Keeper's Cottage is an early 19th-century traditional cottage located beside the Crinan Swing Bridge, between the Crinan Canal basin and the small village of Kilmahumaig. It is a single-storey and attic structure with a rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior is finished in harled rubble, with a central doorway. The pitched roof features piended dormers and is covered with grey slate, complemented by tall end stacks and clay cans. To the right of the main cottage, there is a slightly lower single-storey range.
Local climate
Bridge Keeper's Cottage, Kilmahumaig, Crinan Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,880 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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