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Latitude: 58.532 / 58°31'55"N
Longitude: -3.1166 / 3°6'59"W
OS Eastings: 335077
OS Northings: 960969
OS Grid: ND350609
Mapcode National: GBR L6N5.R07
Mapcode Global: WH6D2.3T55
Plus Code: 9CCRGVJM+Q8
Entry Name: Bothy, Keiss Harbour
Listing Name: Keiss Harbour Bothy
Listing Date: 23 July 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390039
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43519
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Keiss Harbour, Bothy
ID on this website: 200390039
Location: Wick
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Parish: Wick
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Built circa 1830 as a cooperage, in association with adjoining harbour development. Single storey cottage-type design with gable to harbour-front, loupin-on stone and (long-empty) barometer inset. All - including end chimney stacks - built of coursed, local rubble; (SW) front to cooperage yard composed as pair centre-doored 3-bay cottages with plate glass sash and case windows, boarded doors; roof formerly covered in Caithness slates (temporary roof in place 1996). Front to street (NE) has blocked openings except for one window. Separated from nearby 'Braehead' by yard which is enclosed by rubble-built walls, with single vehicular opening and lintelled pedestrian gateway facing harbour-side. Caithness-flagged pavement and stone-causeyed drain.
A cooperage for packaging fish for export was an integral part of the fishing station at Keiss, whose development partly-fuelled significant changes in the area at this time - including construction of a Parliamentary church in 1827, and constituting a quoad sacra parish in 1833 [Groome, Gazetteer (nd, 2nd ed) vol IV, p.339]. Part of A-group with harbour buildings.
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