Kennels Cottage, Megginch Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Cottage.
Kennels Cottage, Megginch Castle
- WRENN ID
- secret-eave-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 241 247
- Coordinates
- 56.40882, -3.23127
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kennels Cottage, built around 1925, is a two-storey, two-bay cottage with a rectangular plan and an unusual design featuring crowstepped gables and fan-shaped windows. The exterior is harled with stone cills.
On the southeast elevation, there is a crowstepped porch that includes a part-glazed timber door and a plate glass fanlight, positioned slightly to the left of the center. There are windows on the outer left at the first floor and one window on each floor to the right.
The northeast elevation features a full-height projecting chimneybreast at the center, flanked by fan-shaped windows at the first floor.
The northwest (rear) elevation has a boarded timber door at the center of the ground floor, with windows in the flanking bays and regular fenestration on the first floor.
On the southwest elevation, there is another full-height projecting chimneybreast.
The cottage has timber sash and case windows with 16-, 20-, and 12-pane configurations, showcasing decorative astragalled glazing patterns. The fan windows also feature decorative astragals. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the chimney stacks are coped and harled.
Local climate
Kennels Cottage, Megginch Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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