Description

Late 19^th or early 20th century, single storey, three bay with central entrance, Skye-type thatched cottage. Rubble-built, slightly battered walls with curved angles and limewashed. Single window in centre of northeast wall. End chimney stacks. Overhanging marram thatch roof, secured with netting and stone weights.

Thatch-roofed outbuilding to north, built after 1963.

Statement of Interest

These vernacular buildings, once prolific across Na h-Eileanan Siar, are now extremely rare. Glaic Cottage continues to show regional traditional building methods and materials and retains a significant proportion of its historic fabric, footprint, vernacular form and character. Notable features include the thick rubble walls and thatched roof secured with stone weights.

It is one of only 54 buildings or groups of buildings in Na h-Eileanan Siar that are known to retain a thatched roof, and is among a very small number of surviving thatched buildings 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.

Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review. Previously listed as 'Claddach Carinish Cottage at OS Grid Reference NF 857 589'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17853509

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