Cottage, Gallanach, Muck is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Cottage.
Cottage, Gallanach, Muck
- WRENN ID
- low-casement-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NM 400 800
- Coordinates
- 56.83934, -6.26341
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 20th century cottage, built after 1903, is a small single-storey traditional structure with three bays. It is constructed of dry stone rubble, featuring rounded corners and slightly battered walls. The northeast frontage has a central entrance flanked by enlarged windows that have 4-pane glazing, and a horizontally divided plank door. There is an additional window in the center of the northwest gable added later. The southeast gable has an end wallhead stack.
The cottage is topped with a piended rush thatch roof, which is secured with turf divots, fishing net, and various weights and stones. At the ridge apices, there are a pair of "raven sticks." Inside, the cottage consists of a single room that is divided by a roughly constructed timber box bed. The overall dimensions of the cottage are approximately 22 feet by 13 feet.
Local climate
Cottage, Gallanach, Muck 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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