Avonlea Cottage, Luss is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. 1 related planning application.
Avonlea Cottage, Luss
- WRENN ID
- strange-ledge-swift
- Grade
- B
- 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
- 14 May 1971
- Address
- Avonlea Cottage, Luss, G83 8NZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 360 929
- Coordinates
- 56.10138, -4.63768
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ivy Bank Cottage is a mid 19th century building that has been refurbished. It consists of a single storey, rectangular-plan pair of cottages with four bays. The structure is made of whinstone and sandstone rubble, featuring pink sandstone margins and dressings, and has advanced bracketed eaves.
On the main elevation, there are two windows symmetrically placed in the center, with two-leaf boarded doors located in the outer bays. The gable elevations also have windows positioned at the center.
The cottage features timber diamond-pane casement windows and has a graded grey slate roof with lead flashings. It is topped with paired sandstone octagonal ridge stacks that have octagonal cans.
Local climate
Avonlea Cottage, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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