Thistle Cottage, 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.
Thistle Cottage, Luss
- WRENN ID
- woven-roof-gold
- 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 360 930
- Coordinates
- 56.1021, -4.63751
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thistle Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the later 19th century, located in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. It has a rectangular plan and is constructed of painted rubble with ashlar margins.
The main elevation features an advanced gabled bay on the outer left, with chamfered arrises that are corbelled to a square shape. There is a window at the front and smaller windows on the right and left returns. To the right, there is a simple boarded door, along with a window on the outer right.
The cottage has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and 4-pane side windows with horizontal glazing bars. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and includes lead flashings. A tall red sandstone ridge stack with paired corniced octagonal cans is also present.
Local climate
Thistle 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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