Canal Cottage, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 2000. Cottage.

Canal Cottage, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 2000
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 112 609
Coordinates
54.90732, -4.94512
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Canal Cottage, located in the Castle Kennedy area of the Lochinch Heritage Estate, is a single-storey, six-bay cottage built in the later 19th century. It is situated next to a kitchen garden. The cottage is constructed from whinstone and features quoins, red sandstone doorpiece dressings, and stop-chamfered reveals. The eaves are supported by timber brackets, and there is decorative timber fretwork on the gables.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there are glazed timber doors in the penultimate bays on both the left and right sides. The central gabled bays contain two single windows, while the outer left and right gabled bays feature bipartite windows.

The northeast (side) elevation has two single windows. The cottage is fitted with plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case windows. It has a grey slate roof with coped ridge stacks and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

Local climate

Canal Cottage, Castle Kennedy, Lochinch Heritage Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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