Glenleraig Cottage, Drumbeg is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1990.
Glenleraig Cottage, Drumbeg
- WRENN ID
- hollow-slate-thyme
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1990
- OS grid reference
- NC 148 314
- Coordinates
- 58.23265, -5.15552
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glenleraig Cottage is a single-story, three-bay post-clearance cottage likely dating to around 1842. A further bay, windowed only at the rear, has been added to the left side. The cottage is constructed of harled, whitewashed rubble, with a door in the front (northwest) elevation flanked by two windows. A small lean-to addition of rubble construction is attached to the southwest gable, along with a wooden lean-to at the rear. The windows are 4-pane sash and case style. The roof is covered with renewed slates, and there are two harled chimney stacks. A range of associated outbuildings, also of rubble construction with corrugated sheet metal roofs, are located to the north.
The cottage was probably built in 1842 in connection with the creation of a single farm, following the clearance of local settlements.
Local climate
Glenleraig Cottage, Drumbeg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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