Inverness, Caledonian Canal, Tomnahurich Bridge Keeper's Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 2014. Cottage.
Inverness, Caledonian Canal, Tomnahurich Bridge Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-steeple-cedar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 June 2014
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NH 655 438
- Coordinates
- 57.46474, -4.24362
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inverness, Caledonian Canal, Tomnahurich Bridge Keeper's Cottage is a former bridge keeper's cottage built around 1820. It is a two-storey, three-bay building that is symmetrical and rectangular in shape, featuring a piended roof and a central piended porch. The cottage faces the Caledonian Canal and is located next to the Tomnahurich swing bridge. It is mainly constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with irregular dressed quoins and rybats, and has slate roof coverings throughout. There is a lean-to extension on the south gable and an entrance door on the east side. The property is enclosed to the north by a rubble-coped garden wall and to the west by a wooden picket fence.
The cottage features mostly replacement four-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. There is one window on each level of the north gable, and a large central stack with clay cans and a slate roof with lead flashings.
The interior has been modernised to serve as self-catering accommodation.
Local climate
Inverness, Caledonian Canal, Tomnahurich Bridge Keeper's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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