Cottage, Low Aldochlay, Luss is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 March 1997. Cottage.
Cottage, Low Aldochlay, Luss
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cloister-moss
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1997
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 360 913
- Coordinates
- 56.08651, -4.63711
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This mid-19th century cottage in Low Aldochlay, Luss, is a single-storey building with a gabled roof. It is constructed from rubble with painted ashlar margins and features rusticated quoins. The eaves are advanced and have painted bargeboards.
On the main elevation, there is a broad gable to the right, which includes tripartite gun-loop headed windows and a rusticated triangular pediment in relief above. To the left, there is a tongue and groove wooden gabled porch in a re-entrant angle, featuring a modern door and sidelights, as well as a window to the outer left. A modern lean-to cement-lined bay is located to the outer right.
The cottage has timber lying-pane and 8-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has lead flashings, along with a tall cement-rendered and corniced stack topped with a decorative clay can.
Local climate
Cottage, Low Aldochlay, Luss sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,750 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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