Cottage (M Darroch), Keils, Jura is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 October 1980. Cottage.

Cottage (M Darroch), Keils, Jura

WRENN ID
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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
Cottage
OS grid reference
NR 526 682
Coordinates
55.84398, -5.9527
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This mid-19th century cottage, located in Keils on the island of Jura, is a single-storey structure with three bays. It features a central door flanked by windows. The exterior is made of limewashed rubble, and it has straight skews and end stacks. The roof is covered with corrugated iron. There is also a roofless shed to the east of the cottage.

Local climate

Cottage (M Darroch), 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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