Change House, Canna is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Cottage, steading/barn. 1 related planning application.
Change House, Canna
- WRENN ID
- mired-gateway-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage, steading/barn
- OS grid reference
- NG 272 053
- Coordinates
- 57.05784, -6.50035
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Change House in Canna is a cottage built around 1800. It is a single-storey structure with a dormerless attic, featuring three bays and a south-facing façade made of whitewashed rubble. The cottage has a central door flanked by windows, end stacks, and a slate roof.
To the east of the cottage is a freestanding steading or barn, likely also dating from around 1800. This two-storey building is built into the side of a south-facing slope and has access to the first-floor barn from the slope. The steading is constructed of harl pointed rubble with a whitewashed front. It has two entrances on the ground floor, one of which has been enlarged. There is an off-rear entry with a winnowing door in the outer bay on the west side of the south elevation, which has been converted into a window. The north and south elevations feature two sets of long slit vents in the centre and outer (east) bays.
Inside the former byre on the ground floor, there is a cobbled floor, while the former barn has a boarded floor. Additionally, there is a late single-storey open-fronted implement shed extending from the west gable.
Local climate
Change House, Canna sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,220 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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