The Rockery, Back Street, Cawdor is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Cottage.

The Rockery, Back Street, Cawdor

WRENN ID
guardian-courtyard-owl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NH 845 499
Coordinates
57.52464, -3.92994
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Rockery is a later 19th century cottage located on Back Street in Cawdor. It is a single storey building with an attic and features a symmetrical design. The cottage has three bays, with a lower single storey, two-bay wing at the west gable. The structure is built of rubble with tooled dressings. The central door is concealed by a shallow porch that has a pediment. The ground floor windows have 12-pane glazing, while the outer bays feature two gabled dormers with 4-pane glazing. The entrance to the wing creates a break in the wallhead, forming a gablet. The building has end stacks and is topped with slate roofs.

Local climate

The Rockery, Back Street, Cawdor receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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