Keeper's Cottage, Aberchalder Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Cottage.

Keeper's Cottage, Aberchalder Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal

WRENN ID
lost-moulding-pigeon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NH 338 035
Coordinates
57.09285, -4.74312
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage, located at Aberchalder Swing Bridge on the Caledonian Canal, was designed by Thomas Telford and built between 1815 and 1820. This single-storey cottage faces west and consists of three bays. It features whitewashed rubble walls and harled gables. The central door is sheltered by a projecting gabled porch. There is a small gabled single-storey extension set back at the south gable, which has varied glazing. The cottage includes end stacks and has slate roofs. A large dormer is present at the rear.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottage, Aberchalder Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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