Starling Cottage, Ichrachan is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 October 1991. 1 related planning application.
Starling Cottage, Ichrachan
- WRENN ID
- high-slate-moon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1991
- Address
- Starling Cottage, Ichrachan, PA35 1HP
- OS grid reference
- NN 011 307
- Coordinates
- 56.42728, -5.22623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Starling Cottage is a traditional Dalriadic-type cottage, likely built in the late 18th or early 19th century, and forming part of a group of cottages that represent the original crofting settlement. The north-facing cottage is arranged in an L-plan at the southeastern end of the group. Originally thatched, the roof was replaced with corrugated iron and then, around 1990, with modern profile sheeting. The walls are whitewashed rubble, with end stacks. The stack on the west gable is a square-section brick flue built against the outer gable wall, suggesting the room at that end may have originally had a non-domestic purpose, as an internal flue wasn’t present. The gable-head at the east end has been rebuilt in brick, with a curved northeast corner, likely to facilitate passage to the neighboring cottage. A corrugated-iron lean-to is also present.
The interior has been completely modernised, but sawn-off cruck-ends remain. The cottage is part of a group value with the other listed cottages of Ichrachan.
Local climate
Starling Cottage, Ichrachan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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