Thatched Cottage, Keils, Jura is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 October 1980. Byre.
Thatched Cottage, Keils, Jura
- WRENN ID
- tattered-plinth-wren
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1980
- Type
- Byre
- OS grid reference
- NR 526 682
- Coordinates
- 55.8442, -5.95326
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thatched Cottage in Keils, Jura, is an earlier 19th-century byre, with half of it now in ruins. The building is constructed from rubble with roughly dressed quoins and jambs. There is an entrance along with a window on the west side of the south elevation. The surviving part of the cottage still has its thatched roof.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage, Keils, Jura sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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