Guisachan Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. 1 related planning application.
Guisachan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-chapel-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Address
- Guisachan Cottage, IV4 7LY
- OS grid reference
- NH 302 269
- Coordinates
- 57.30109, -4.81999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Guisachan Cottage is likely from the late 19th century, possibly incorporating an earlier building. It was probably designed by A & W Reid. The cottage is a single-storey structure with an attic, presenting a symmetrical three-bay façade facing southeast. There is an additional ground floor window on each side of the central door. The walls are harled. A decorative bargeboarded porch is present, as are three gabletted dormers in the attic, with the outer dormers breaking the wallhead. Single windows are located in the ground and first floors of the return gables. The casement windows have lattice pane glazing. Decorative bargeboards are on the dormers and gable ends. The building has coped end stacks and a slate roof with projecting eaves. It stands close to an earlier 19th century bridge at Knockfin, and may pre-date the establishment of Tomich as an estate village associated with Guisachan. The statutory address is Tomich, Guisachan Cottage.
Local climate
Guisachan Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 0.2°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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