Seven Slate Workers' Boat Sheds, Loch Leven, Rudha Na Glas-Lice, Ballachulish is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 October 1992. Boat houses.
Seven Slate Workers' Boat Sheds, Loch Leven, Rudha Na Glas-Lice, Ballachulish
- WRENN ID
- frozen-barrel-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1992
- Type
- Boat houses
- OS grid reference
- NN 082 585
- Coordinates
- 56.67959, -5.13245
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Seven Slate Workers' Boat Sheds at Loch Leven, Rudha Na Glas-Lice, Ballachulish, are a group of boat houses that predate the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which was surveyed in 1870. These structures, now also used as tool sheds, consist of single, double, and triple units that can accommodate a total of 11 boats. They are constructed from blue-grey Ballachulish slate shingle, emerging from man-made harbour banks made from quarry refuse. The walls are built using roughly squared slates arranged in horizontal courses, following a dry-stone technique. Each shed features simple boarded two-leaf timber doors and over-door panels. The roofs are mono-pitched, made of large squared slate slabs laid flat in both horizontal and vertical crossed courses, although one roof, that of the easternmost boat house, has been re-slated in a different pattern with even horizontal courses. Notably, one single boat house has been left roofless since 1992.
Local climate
Seven Slate Workers' Boat Sheds, Loch Leven, Rudha Na Glas-Lice, Ballachulish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,070 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 52 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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