Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Cottage, outbuilding.
Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist
- WRENN ID
- leaning-gateway-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Cottage, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- NF 857 589
- Coordinates
- 57.51099, -7.2504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glaic Cottage, located in Claddach Carinish on the Isle of North Uist, is a single-storey, three-bay Skye-type thatched cottage dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. The cottage features rubble-built walls that are slightly battered, with curved angles and limewashed surfaces. There is a single window in the centre of the northeast wall and end chimney stacks. The roof is made of overhanging marram thatch, which is secured with netting and stone weights.
To the north of the cottage, there is a thatch-roofed outbuilding that was constructed after 1963.
Local climate
Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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