Lock Keeper's House, Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Caledonian Canal, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1976. Cottage, bothy.

Lock Keeper's House, Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Caledonian Canal, Inverness

WRENN ID
bitter-lantern-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1976
Type
Cottage, bothy
OS grid reference
NH 644 467
Coordinates
57.49034, -4.26279
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Lock Keeper's House at Clachnaharry Sea Lock on the Caledonian Canal is an early 19th-century cottage made of painted squared and coursed rubble. It stands two storeys high and features two windows on the ground floor along with a central piended porch, and two windows with piended dormer heads on the first floor. Lean-to outshots are present at each gable end. To the west, there is a rendered single-storey bothy with a piended slated roof and an attached brick stack. Both structures are set within a rectangular garden, mainly extending to the east of the cottage, and are partially enclosed by a coped stone wall.

The windows predominantly have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The building has end stacks with clay cans and a pitched slate roof. There is also a later lean-to extension to the south.

The interior was observed in 2013, revealing that the former lock keeper's cottage has been subdivided, although the date of this alteration is unknown. The eastern half of the building is currently used as the sea lock and canal office by Scottish Canals, having been modified from residential use in 2005. The western half serves as a private residence.

Local climate

Lock Keeper's House, Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Caledonian Canal, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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