Leitirfearn, Loch Oich is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 2002. Cottage.
Leitirfearn, Loch Oich
- WRENN ID
- mired-lantern-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 September 2002
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NH 326 013
- Coordinates
- 57.07246, -4.76224
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Leitirfearn is an 18th-century cottage with minor later alterations, featuring a traditional single-storey design and a three-bay layout that forms an L-plan with a rear byre. The principal elevation is symmetrical, showcasing an advanced porch and a steeply pitched roof, with the exterior constructed from whitewashed rubble and boulders.
On the northwest elevation, there is a central door leading to a timber boarded pitched porch, flanked by single windows positioned close to the eaves. The northeast elevation presents a plain gable wall with the byre located to the left. The southeast elevation was not visible in 2002. The southwest elevation also features a plain gable wall, rendered to resemble snecked stonework, with the byre set back to the right.
The cottage includes a timber boarded door and four-pane timber sash windows, with corrugated roof cladding and timber bargeboards. There are two cast-iron rooflights on the northwest side, coped gable apex stacks, a polygonal clay can on the northeast, and thackstanes.
Inside, the walls are lined with timber. The south room contains a cast-iron kitchen range, while the north room features a late 19th-century cast-iron grate, both with plain timber mantelpieces.
Local climate
Leitirfearn, Loch Oich sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 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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