Ord Cottage, Milton is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Ord Cottage, Milton
- WRENN ID
- cold-baluster-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 767 741
- Coordinates
- 57.74031, -4.07218
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th century house with a mid-19th century addition to the south gable, known as Milton House and Ord Cottage. The buildings are constructed of red rubble with contrasting yellow sandstone dressings.
Milton House is a two-storey and attic structure with three bays, the central bay containing a masked front door. A glazed porch, dating to around 1900, now occupies this position. The roof is slate-covered and features two piended dormers. The windows are 4-pane sashes. The building has panelled and corniced end stacks. A low retaining wall, topped with cast-iron spearhead railings, runs alongside.
Ord Cottage is a single-storey and attic building with three narrow bays. The ground floor includes a modern glazed front door and two windows to the right. A single piended dormer rises through the wallhead. The windows are 4-pane sashes and the building has a panelled end stack and a slate roof.
Ord Cottage is listed for group value only.
Local climate
Ord Cottage, Milton receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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