Cottages, Old Blair is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Cottages, Old Blair
- WRENN ID
- grey-clay-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 867 665
- Coordinates
- 56.77714, -3.85513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Blair consists of a single-storey, L-shaped group of cottages built from rubble. The houses on the south side have a single storey and an attic, with the roofline sloping downwards to the east. There is a walled garden associated with the cottages. The group was re-categorised from grade B to grade C(S) in 2006, reflecting the importance of the group as a whole. The listing applies to both the interior and exterior of the buildings, as is appropriate for this type of structure.
Local climate
Cottages, Old Blair sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 82 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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