8 Imperial Cottages, Imperial Distillery, Carron is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.
8 Imperial Cottages, Imperial Distillery, Carron
- WRENN ID
- north-pinnacle-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 416
- Coordinates
- 57.45796, -3.30908
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A terrace of eight single-storey and attic cottages, dating to circa 1900 and built by Charles Doig, situated facing south. The cottages are arranged in five pairs, each pair sharing a secondary entrance in the outer bay. The construction is of pinned mixed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The roofs are piended, with a low sweep over the side elevations. The main entrance to each pair is centrally located on the return walls, breaking the wallhead under a gablet, and features a double-leaf plank door. The windows are four-pane sash windows. Paired dormers, likely added slightly later, are positioned at the front and back. Coped stacks rise through the roof, flanking a short ridge. Slate roofs feature projecting eaves.
The cottages were built to house workers at the Imperial Distillery, which was established in 1897. They appear on the 1903 Ordnance Survey map. The statutory address is By Carron Bridge, Nos 1-10 (including Nos) Imperial Cottages. Further details are held at the Moray District Record Office.
Local climate
8 Imperial Cottages, Imperial Distillery, Carron sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 99% 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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