Croft House, Cleadale, Eigg is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 1998. Croft house.

Croft House, Cleadale, Eigg

WRENN ID
tangled-roof-tallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 February 1998
Type
Croft house
OS grid reference
NM 478 887
Coordinates
56.92155, -6.14564
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Croft House in Cleadale, Eigg, is a 19th-century single-storey croft house. It features a harl-pointed and lime-washed exterior with three bays and gabled ends, along with rounded corners. The front has a central door flanked by windows, while there is a small single window at the centre of the rear and blank side elevations. The house has timber sash and case windows, with a later timber hopper window at the rear. The roof is made of red corrugated iron, and there are stone gablehead stacks topped with terracotta cans.

Local climate

Croft House, Cleadale, Eigg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,220 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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