Muirtown Cottage, Clachnaharry Road, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. House.
Muirtown Cottage, Clachnaharry Road, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- lost-entrance-finch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1981
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 652 459
- Coordinates
- 57.48372, -4.24877
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Muirtown Cottage is a Gothic-style house built around 1800 to 1820. It is two stories tall with a symmetrical three-bay design and features upper breaking eaves. A later addition is a central timber porch with multiple gables. The exterior is made of tooled, squared, and coursed red sandstone, accented with ashlar margins, and has harl pointing on the rear elevation. There is a base course, pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds on the ground floor, and gablet dormers. The center window on the first floor is blind. The cottage has replacement dormers and a single-storey addition at the rear. It is situated on ground that is lower than the street level.
The windows have multi-pane glazing with simple Y tracery in timber frames. The roof is piended and slated, featuring a central coped stack with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Muirtown Cottage, Clachnaharry Road, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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