Crescent 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 15 May 1971. Cottage.

Crescent Cottage, Luss

WRENN ID
hallowed-sentry-torch
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
15 May 1971
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 359 929
Coordinates
56.10108, -4.63863
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Crescent Cottage is a mid-19th century single-storey cottage with a rectangular plan, featuring three bays. It is constructed from sandstone and whinstone rubble, with ashlar margins and dressings. The eaves are advanced and bracketted.

On the south elevation, there is a central two-leaf boarded door with windows on either side. The cottage has timber diamond-paned casement windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a piended design, with lead flashings. Sandstone octagonal ridge stacks and octagonal cans complete the roof structure.

Local climate

Crescent 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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