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Latitude: 55.9918 / 55°59'30"N
Longitude: -3.4529 / 3°27'10"W
OS Eastings: 309464
OS Northings: 678604
OS Grid: NT094786
Mapcode National: GBR 1Y.VJ77
Mapcode Global: WH5R4.XNXG
Plus Code: 9C7RXGRW+PR
Entry Name: Thatched Cottage, Hopetoun House
Listing Name: Obelisk Cottage
Listing Date: 25 June 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 331000
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB622
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Hopetoun House, Thatched Cottage
ID on this website: 200331000
Location: Abercorn
County: West Lothian
Electoral Ward: Linlithgow
Parish: Abercorn
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage
It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.
Listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review.
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