Middle Farmworkers Cottage, Meikle Tarrel is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1999.

Middle Farmworkers Cottage, Meikle Tarrel

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1999
OS grid reference
NH 900 811
Coordinates
57.80606, -3.85148
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

South Western Farmworkers Cottage in Meikle Tarrel is a late 18th century building featuring mid 20th century porches. It is a two-storey, nine-bay row that consists of three pairs of mirrored narrow farmworkers cottages. The exterior is made of whitewashed rubble with sandstone dressings.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with lean-to porches that have corrugated roofs at the center of each cottage. Timber doors are located on the right side, and there are windows on both sides of the porches at the ground and first floors.

The northeast elevation is gabled and blank. The northwest elevation is mostly blank as well, with a single opening under the eaves on the right side. The southwest elevation is also gabled and blank, featuring a timber lean-to addition at the ground floor.

The building has a variety of timber framed casement and sash and case windows, some of which have lying-panes. The roof is covered with graded Ballachulish slate and has a stone ridge, with stone skews. The gablehead and ridge stacks are coped sandstone with predominantly octagonal cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the cottage features 19th century timber lining, paired timber staircases, and stone slab fire surrounds.

Local climate

Middle Farmworkers Cottage, Meikle Tarrel receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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