Gardener's Cottage, Applecross House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Gardener's Cottage, Applecross House
- WRENN ID
- young-mantel-khaki
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NG 721 457
- Coordinates
- 57.44435, -5.79874
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Applecross House is an early 19th century single-storey, three-bay cottage. It features a central door and is harled. The entrance has a double-leafed plank door with a simple fanlight above it, and the original small windows have four-pane glazing. The cottage has paired ridge stacks and a piended slate roof. The large walled garden is enclosed by coped rubble walls.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage, Applecross House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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