Temple Cottages, Drumnadrochit is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Temple Cottages, Drumnadrochit
- WRENN ID
- scarred-bailey-pine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Temple Cottages, Drumnadrochit, IV63 6XR
- OS grid reference
- NH 528 300
- Coordinates
- 57.33697, -4.44558
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Temple Cottages in Drumnadrochit are a pair of late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay cottages that were built at different times. The cottages are finished with white harling. The western cottage is dated 1851 and features an off-centre door along with three ground floor windows, which have 16-pane glazing. The eastern cottage has a wide three-bay layout with a central door and a canted oriel window in the first-floor outer bay, added in 1984, and mainly has 4-pane glazing. Both cottages have boulder footings, end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.
Local climate
Temple Cottages, Drumnadrochit sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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