Memorial Cottage, West End, Cawdor is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Dwelling.

Memorial Cottage, West End, Cawdor

WRENN ID
scarred-railing-magpie
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
Dwelling
OS grid reference
NH 842 498
Coordinates
57.52372, -3.93442
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Memorial Cottage, located in West End, Cawdor, was designed by A. & W. Reid in 1881. This single-storey and attic dwelling features an E-plan layout with five bays facing south. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings. It has a central projecting porch flanked by windows, and the outer gabled bays further project to create a gabled porch with segmental-headed entrances on the east and west elevations. The cottage includes small attic gable windows, 8-pane glazing, and scolloped bargeboards topped with decorative wooden apex finials. It has coped paired ridge stacks and slate roofs.

Local climate

Memorial Cottage, West End, Cawdor receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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