Black Croft, Blaich is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Cottage.
Black Croft, Blaich
- WRENN ID
- sacred-tower-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NN 039 770
- Coordinates
- 56.84375, -5.21676
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Black Croft is a mid-19th century barn that was converted into a dwelling between 1900 and 1910. It is a single-storey, three-bay cottage constructed from random rubble. The building features thick walls with rounded angles, a central entrance with a double leaf plank door, and enlarged windows on either side that have 4-pane glazing. There is a renewed brick chimney at the center, and the cottage has a piended felt roof with two modern roof lights at the rear, which replaced the original thatch.
Local climate
Black Croft, Blaich sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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