Steading, Cailness Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 2006. 1 related planning application.
Steading, Cailness Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-wicket-curlew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2006
- Address
- Steading, Cailness Cottage, FK8 3TU
- OS grid reference
- NN 342 062
- Coordinates
- 56.21973, -4.6748
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cailness Cottage is a small farmstead located in a very remote area on the eastern bank of Loch Lomond, with steep inclines directly behind it. The property includes an early 19th century cottage, two small outbuildings that may date back to the 18th century, and a stone-built harbour or jetty situated a little distance away. Cailness is a well-preserved and largely unaltered example of a modest early 19th century cottage and steading.
The cottage has a rectangular plan and consists of three bays. The front west elevation faces Loch Lomond and features a central 2-leaf timber-boarded door with a rectangular fanlight above, along with two large piend-roofed dormer windows in the roof. The side gables are blank, while the rear elevation has four bays, including a door in the inner right bay.
Inside, the cottage contains several 1930s tiled chimneypieces, a plain timber dog-leg stair with winders, and has been modernised in the early 20th century.
The exterior is made of white-painted random rubble with red-painted droved sandstone quoins and margins. It has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a pitched, graded slate roof. The gable-end stacks are corniced with circular cans, and the property mostly features cast iron rainwater goods.
The outbuildings are both rectangular in plan and oriented roughly northwest to southeast. The larger outbuilding, closest to the cottage, is built of random rubble with dressed quoins and projecting block skewputts. It has two doorways and a slit opening on the northeast elevation, as well as one doorway on the southwest. The pitched, graded slate roof has raised ventilation openings below the ridge. This barn appears to have been constructed on the foundations and lower courses of an earlier building, possibly rebuilt when the cottage was built. The smaller outbuilding, located just southeast, is a lower, simpler rubble structure with a doorway on the northeast elevation and a corrugated iron pitched roof, suggesting it predates both the cottage and the larger barn.
Local climate
Steading, Cailness Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,930 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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