Walled Garden, Glenmorvern Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985.

Walled Garden, Glenmorvern Cottage

WRENN ID
leaning-tin-heron
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 567 515
Coordinates
56.59232, -5.96444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenmorvern Cottage is a later 19th century, symmetrical two-storey, five-bay house with a rear wing. The house is painted and weatherboarded, standing on brick foundations, and features contrasting painted architraves. The southwest front is partially obscured at the ground floor by a continuous decorative cast-iron verandah that is partially glazed. The central door is flanked by longer ground floor windows compared to those on the first floor. There is a central window on both the ground and first floors in the southeast return gable, and paired diminutive first-floor windows in the northwest. The house has moulded wooden architraves, 12-pane glazing, some external window shutters, and paired centre ridge stacks topped with original decorative coped cans. The roof is shallow piended and covered with slate.

The two-storey, two-bay rear wing is an earlier 19th century structure, harled and featuring a centre ridge stack and a piended slate roof.

The property includes an earlier 19th century walled garden located on a southwest sloping site, with coped rubble walls that are higher at the rear and rounded at the front. The northeast face of the rear wall is filled by a continuous lean-to range of bothies, some of which have windows and a door leading to the garden. This terminates with a single-storey, three-bay cottage that has end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Glenmorvern Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,820 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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