Canniemyre is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Farm cottage.
Canniemyre
- WRENN ID
- winter-gargoyle-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1999
- Type
- Farm cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 508 039
- Coordinates
- 58.91977, -2.85532
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Canniemyre is a mid-19th century single-storey, four-bay farm cottage with an asymmetrical rectangular plan. It features lean-to additions on both long sides and is part of an L-plan complex that includes a slightly lower byre range. The building is constructed from squared and roughly coursed rubble.
On the south elevation, the main cottage has a central lean-to with two evenly spaced windows, a boarded door located in the right return, and additional windows in the outer bays to the left and right. There is an offset doorway to the byre range on the right side.
The east side elevation consists of two bays, with a slightly lower bay on the right. It has a wide doorway in the central bay and another doorway in the outer right bay.
The north internal elevation features a lean-to with a boarded door and a window to the left of the main cottage, along with further openings that are obscured to the right.
The cottage has timber-framed windows, small rooflights on both the cottage and the byres, and a graded stone slate roof with stone ridges, stone skews, and rubble corniced gablehead stacks on the east and west gables. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
Canniemyre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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