Bank Cottage, Torcastle, Caledonian Canal is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985.
Bank Cottage, Torcastle, Caledonian Canal
- WRENN ID
- knotted-baluster-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- OS grid reference
- NN 135 796
- Coordinates
- 56.87113, -5.06013
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bank Cottage is a single-storey and attic cottage, built around 1815 by Thomas Telford as part of the Caledonian Canal project. It faces southwest with a three-bay design, distinguished by a central, projecting bowed bay. The walls are harled (roughcast) with painted tooled ashlar margins. A later timber gabled porch obscures the central entrance. Two small, piended (hipped) dormers are set into the roof, along with a window in the northwest return gable. The windows have four panes of glass. The base course is visible, and a central coped ridge stack rises from the roof. The roof is covered in slate. A large, modern extension has been added to the rear. It was formerly known as Canal Cottage, as shown on Ordnance Survey maps. The statutory address is Bank Cottage by Torcastle, Caledonian Canal.
Local climate
Bank Cottage, Torcastle, Caledonian Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,020 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 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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