Plodda Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Plodda Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-belfry-holly
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 279 245
- Coordinates
- 57.27941, -4.85575
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Plodda Cottage is a single-storey cottage, built around 1860, with a cruciform plan. It was designed by A & W Reid. The exterior is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. A gabled porch is situated in the re-entrant angle to the right of the south gable. There is a three-light window in the south gable, and smaller windows elsewhere. The windows have lattice pane glazing. The roof is slate-covered, with a coped central ridge stack, and decorative bargeboards and turned finials to the gable apexes. Drawings of the cottage are among the Guisachan Estate plans. The cottage fronts a lane that leads to Plodda Falls.
Local climate
Plodda Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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