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Latitude: 56.4574 / 56°27'26"N
Longitude: -3.119 / 3°7'8"W
OS Eastings: 331133
OS Northings: 730031
OS Grid: NO311300
Mapcode National: GBR VG.05DQ
Mapcode Global: WH6Q4.2Y0L
Plus Code: 9C8RFV4J+X9
Entry Name: Hawthorne Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan
Listing Name: Longforgan, Main Street, Hawthorne Cottage
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346394
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13276
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Longforgan, Main Street, Hawthorne Cottage
ID on this website: 200346394
Location: Longforgan
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie
Parish: Longforgan
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Later two-storey house adjoining this cottage to the west.
The previous listed building record (written in 1971) noted that the building had straw thatch at this time. The SPAB survey notes that in 2014 it was thatched with reed and has a concrete ridge.
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 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.
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