Glencoe And North Lorn Museum, Main Street, Glencoe is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980. 5 related planning applications.

Glencoe And North Lorn Museum, Main Street, Glencoe

WRENN ID
under-rotunda-heron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 June 1980
OS grid reference
NN 101 588
Coordinates
56.68291, -5.10081
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Glencoe and North Lorn Museum occupies an earlier-mid 19th century pair of single-storey cottages situated along the main street of Glencoe village. A former byre stands as a separate building at a right angle to the cottages, at the west gable.

The cottages, which form the main museum building, comprise six irregular bays, each with a doorway, and are constructed of whitewashed rubble. They feature four-pane glazing and have end and central ridge stacks. The roof is thatched with heather. The cottages are linked internally to create one larger space. Inside, portions of the original cruck blades have been partially reconstructed.

The byre is a small, single-storey structure with an entrance in its long east elevation. It is built with slightly battered walls using a local drystone technique, featuring courses of round and sometimes split field boulders levelled with slate rows. The gable is weatherboarded, likely replacing turf, and the roof is thatched with heather.

Local climate

Glencoe And North Lorn Museum, Main Street, Glencoe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,070 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 72 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 0.3°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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