Cottage, Kinloch Hourn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1994. Cottage.
Cottage, Kinloch Hourn
- WRENN ID
- ancient-column-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NG 950 065
- Coordinates
- 57.10429, -5.3859
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early traditional West Highland cottage, built in the piend-roofed style. Originally thatched, it now features a piended corrugated iron roof. The cottage is constructed from rubble with boulder footings and has a squared rubble chimney head. It has four bays, arranged as three bays plus one, with a ridge stack located over the partition wall.
The left-hand three-bay domestic section has an entrance in the center of the front elevation, which includes a later timber porch. To the right of the entrance, there is a single window with a 9-pane glazing pattern. In the right-hand bay, there is a secondary window opening with a 4-pane sash and case glazing. Additionally, there is a skylight in the slope of the corrugated iron roof above the right-hand bay.
On the rear elevation, the left side is masked by a gable shed, and there is a secondary casement timber window opening close to the eaves on the right.
Local climate
Cottage, Kinloch Hourn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,190 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 52 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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