Lock Keeper's Cottage, Cullochy Lock, Caledonian Canal is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Cottage.

Lock Keeper's Cottage, Cullochy Lock, Caledonian Canal

WRENN ID
buried-oriel-grove
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
OS grid reference
NH 341 042
Coordinates
57.09893, -4.74012
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lock Keeper's Cottage at Cullochy Lock on the Caledonian Canal is an early 19th-century building that is single-storey with an attic and faces east. The cottage is constructed of whitewashed rubble with painted ashlar margins. The central door is obscured by a modern glazed porch. There are two piended dormers in the outer bays, featuring multi-pane glazing, and end stacks that have been renewed at the north gable. The roof is covered with slate. Additionally, there is a modern timber single-storey extension at the south gable.

Local climate

Lock Keeper's Cottage, Cullochy Lock, Caledonian Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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