Woolmill Cottage, Knockando is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 2003. Cottage.

Woolmill Cottage, Knockando

WRENN ID
dreaming-timber-sable
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 September 2003
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 187 425
Coordinates
57.46588, -3.35551
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Woolmill Cottage is a simple, traditional, single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the earlier 19th century. It has a rectangular plan and is symmetrically designed, located to the south of a nearby mill. Attached to the southeast gable is a small, roofless square-plan dairy or larder. The cottage features low wallheads with openings positioned close to the eaves. The exterior shows harling in some areas, while coursed random rubble with ladder pinnings is visible elsewhere. The roof is pitched and covered with corrugated asbestos.

The principal northeast elevation has a central doorway flanked by windows on both the far left and far right. The dairy or larder is located at the left gable and has a separate doorway. The rear southwest elevation has an off-centre doorway with flanking windows. The cottage is topped with raised coped skews and has coped gable apex stacks, with a clay can on the southeast side and evidence of thackstanes. The doors are two-leaf timber boarded, and the windows are timber with four panes and multi-paned sash and case designs.

Inside, there is a small hallway from the front door, with doorways leading to the principal gable end rooms and a central narrow room that runs to the rear. The interior features timber six-panelled fielded doors, a small cast-iron range, and a cast-iron register grate in the respective principal rooms, along with timber-lined walls.

Local climate

Woolmill Cottage, Knockando sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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