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Latitude: 55.0913 / 55°5'28"N
Longitude: -3.5171 / 3°31'1"W
OS Eastings: 303274
OS Northings: 578480
OS Grid: NY032784
Mapcode National: GBR 39WK.CQ
Mapcode Global: WH5WK.Y9C8
Plus Code: 9C7R3FRM+G5
Entry Name: Cruck Cottage, Torthorwald
Listing Name: Torthorwald Village Cruck Cottage
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351015
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17157
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351015
Location: Torthorwald
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Lochar
Parish: Torthorwald
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Central door in south elevation flanked by two deeply recessed windows (four-pane sashes). Single window with lying panes in each gable. Off-centre door in north wall. Chimney stack on west gable with thatch taken around chimney.
Interior: crucks and tie beams exposed, interior partitions removed.
In use as a museum (2019).
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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