The Cottage, Drymen Road, Balloch is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Cottage villa. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage, Drymen Road, Balloch

WRENN ID
fallow-pillar-sage
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Cottage villa
Address
The Cottage, Drymen Road, Balloch, G83 8HT
OS grid reference
NS 397 821
Coordinates
56.0058, -4.57152
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cottage on Drymen Road in Balloch dates from around 1930 and is a single-storey and attic, three-bay rectangular-plan cottage villa featuring a deep mansard roof with painted render.

The main elevation has a central door with a jerkin-gabled canopy that breaks the eaves, supported by slender wooden columns. On either side of the door are multi-paned canted windows. Above, there is a square tripartite dormer with a catslide roof, and two small leaded windows are symmetrically placed at the center.

The cottage has multi-paned metal windows and a grey slate roof with lead flashings. At the rear, there are tall, broad coped wallhead stacks with circular cans.

The boundary wall includes square offset gatepiers topped with low pyramidal caps. It is made of squared sandstone with saddleback coping and features a decorative cast-iron gate.

Local climate

The Cottage, Drymen Road, Balloch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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