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Latitude: 57.443 / 57°26'34"N
Longitude: -6.6418 / 6°38'30"W
OS Eastings: 121596
OS Northings: 848706
OS Grid: NG215487
Mapcode National: GBR 99Z1.QJW
Mapcode Global: WGX5K.Y5DY
Plus Code: 9C9MC9V5+67
Entry Name: Colbost Croft Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye
Listing Name: Taigh-tasgaidh Croit Cheileabost, 1 Ceileabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach / Colbost Croft Museum excluding remains of later 20th century Still House to west, 1 Colbost, Isle of Skye
Listing Date: 8 September 1982
Last Amended: 16 March 2021
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330797
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB496
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Skye, Colbost No. 1, Croft Museum
ID on this website: 200330797
Location: Duirinish
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Eilean á Chèo
Parish: Duirinish
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Museum Blackhouse
Interior: half sawn planking partition between room and byre; centre hearth to room, with crook over. Earth floor. Byre has pebble floor and small vent at wallhead level.
In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: remains of the later 20th century Still House to west.
The former croft house became a museum in 1969.
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.
In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: remains of the later 20th century Still House to west.
Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2020. Previously listed as '1 Colbost, House and Former Still House now Croft Museum'.
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