Coulnakyle Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1998. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Coulnakyle Cottage

WRENN ID
drifting-steel-saffron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 February 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
Coulnakyle Cottage, PH25 3EA
OS grid reference
NH 999 215
Coordinates
57.27333, -3.66124
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Coulnakyle Cottage is a single-storey cottage built in the earlier to mid 19th century. It has a rectangular plan and is constructed from harled stone. The central entrance features a part-glazed, two-leaf door with a small-pane fanlight above, flanked by windows. The side elevations are blank and include tall, broad wallhead stacks. At the rear, there is a small lean-to addition that projects off-centre to the right, with windows on either side. The cottage has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a roof covered with grey slates, featuring a piend and platform design, along with 19th century cast-iron rooflights.

Local climate

Coulnakyle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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