Cottage, Melvaig is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Cottage, Melvaig
- WRENN ID
- deep-flue-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 743 865
- Coordinates
- 57.81162, -5.80091
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a mid to later 19th century single-storey, three-bay cottage located at 11 Melvaig. The walls are harl-pointed rubble with rubble dressings. The front elevation features a central door flanked by windows, with the window to the left having been slightly enlarged. A small window is located centrally at the rear. The cottage has diminutive pipe end stacks, and the roof is now covered with felt instead of thatch.
Local climate
Cottage, Melvaig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
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