Dykehead Cottages And Toll House, Dykehead is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House.
Dykehead Cottages And Toll House, Dykehead
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-window-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 597 978
- Coordinates
- 56.1529, -4.26012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dykehead Cottages and Toll House is a symmetrical group located on a corner, dating from the late 18th century. It features a single-storey octagonal structure with a porch, which was originally a toll house and later served as a library. This octagon is flanked on each side by a single-storey cottage with an attic, followed by another single-storey cottage. The buildings are constructed of whitewashed rubble, with the attic portions being later additions.
Local climate
Dykehead Cottages And Toll House, Dykehead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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