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Glencoe And North Lorn Museum, Main Street, Glencoe

A Category B Listed Building in Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6829 / 56°40'58"N

Longitude: -5.1008 / 5°6'2"W

OS Eastings: 210162

OS Northings: 758873

OS Grid: NN101588

Mapcode National: GBR FCS1.VNV

Mapcode Global: WH1GJ.M974

Plus Code: 9C8PMVMX+5M

Entry Name: Glencoe And North Lorn Museum, Main Street, Glencoe

Listing Name: Glencoe Village, Glencoe and North Lorn Folk Museum

Listing Date: 23 June 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338593

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6872

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200338593

Location: Lismore and Appin

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Parish: Lismore And Appin

Traditional County: Argyllshire

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Description

Earlier-mid 19th century pair single storey south facing
cottages flanking village street, with former byre as a
separate building at right angles at west gable.
Cottages (main museum building); 6 irregular bays with 2
doors; all whitewashed rubble; 4-pane glazing; end and single
centre ridge stacks; heather thatched roof.
Interior: linked internally as one; former cruck (couple)
blades partially reconstructed.
Byre: small single storey byre with entrance in long east
elevation; slightly battered walls, rounded angles of local
drystone technique comprising courses of round, sometimes
split, field boulders levelled with rows of slate.
Weatherboarded gable (probably replacing turf); heather thatch.

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