Bowling Lock-Keepers' Cottages, Forth And Clyde Canal is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 April 1991. Houses.
Bowling Lock-Keepers' Cottages, Forth And Clyde Canal
- WRENN ID
- silent-lancet-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1991
- Type
- Houses
- OS grid reference
- NS 452 735
- Coordinates
- 55.93, -4.47855
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bowling Lock-Keepers' Cottages, built by Burnet, Son and Campbell around 1896, are two-storey, three-bay Arts and Crafts former lock keepers' houses that resemble a single villa, with lower bays to the west. The cottages are located on the north side of the Forth and Clyde Canal, overlooking the upper Bowling basin. They are finished in white harl with red sandstone margins, featuring piended slate roofs, terracotta ridges, and prominent eaves. There is a forestair to the east that leads to the upper flat. The buildings have shouldered wallhead stacks and ridge stacks, along with some round and segmental-arched window openings on the ground floor. The windows are primarily 4-over-2 pane timber sash and case. The interior was partially viewed in 2013, but no notable features of special interest were observed in the section that was seen.
Local climate
Bowling Lock-Keepers' Cottages, Forth And Clyde Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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