2 Castle Cottage, Ardtornish Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985.

2 Castle Cottage, Ardtornish Estate

WRENN ID
half-postern-smoke
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 May 1985
OS grid reference
NM 696 475
Coordinates
56.56289, -5.74989
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Castle Cottage, located on the Ardtornish Estate, was designed by Samuel Barham in 1873. It consists of a pair of single-storey dwellings arranged in an H-plan, featuring a long six-bay front elevation facing southeast. The exterior is finished in rendered concrete. The outer bays on the southeast elevation are slightly advanced and each has a rectangular bay window topped with a piended roof, which is tucked beneath projecting bargeboarded gables. The flanks are simple and irregular, each with an entrance and consisting of four bays. The front windows are either two or three-light, made with wooden mullions and multi-pane glazing. A large central wallhead corniced stack rises from a slight projection in the centre of the elevation, complemented by a pair of corniced ridge stacks. The slate roofs have deep eaves and project outward to form a partially glazed canopy that links the outer bays, creating a shallow front verandah.

Local climate

2 Castle Cottage, Ardtornish Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,030 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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