Blackrock Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 July 1996. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Blackrock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-turret-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackrock Cottage, PH49 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- NN 267 530
- Coordinates
- 56.63723, -4.82633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blackrock Cottage is a cottage located at the junction of an old military road and a trackway. Its exact date is uncertain, but it is possibly from the 18th century. The cottage is constructed from whitewashed rubble with battered walls and features a corrugated iron roof. Originally, it had four bays arranged with three bays containing a central door and end stacks, plus an additional doorway bay to the right. To the left, there is a secondary lower and recessed two-bay addition that incorporates some massive boulders, and the gable head is built in blockwork, suggesting it may have originally had a piended roof. The cottage has boarded timber doors and timber-framed windows that have been barred, presumably after 1947.
Local climate
Blackrock Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,940 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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