Description

Probably 19th century. Hebridean-type thatched cottage. Single-storey, three-bay east front with centre door. Single window in centre of west wall. Thick battered walls with curved angles; limewashed. End chimney stacks, marram thatch roof with a continuous thatched ridge, netted and weighted along the eaves by stones secured to the netting.

The cottage is currently in use as holiday accommodation.

There is a thatched outbuilding to east, built before 1967, which is used as storage.

Statement of Interest

This property is a 19th century, Hebridean-type thatch-roofed crofthouse, renovated in 1987-88. These vernacular buildings, once prolific across Na h-Eileanan Siar, are now extremely rare. Struan Cottage continues to show regional traditional building methods and materials and retains a significant proportion of its historic fabric, 19th century footprint, vernacular form and character. Notable features include the thick rubble walls with curved angles and a marram thatched roof weighted along the eaves.

It is one of only 54 buildings or groups of buildings in Na h-Eileanan Siar that are known to retain an intact 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 'Sollas Malaclete Struan Ruadh Cottages, Struan Cottage'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q15130644

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014