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Eilean Tioram Fishing Station, Badachro

A Category B Listed Building in Gairloch, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.701 / 57°42'3"N

Longitude: -5.7252 / 5°43'30"W

OS Eastings: 178135

OS Northings: 874012

OS Grid: NG781740

Mapcode National: GBR D87C.JCZ

Mapcode Global: WH082.1P0P

Plus Code: 9C9PP72F+CW

Entry Name: Eilean Tioram Fishing Station, Badachro

Listing Name: Badachro, Eilean Tioram (Dry Island), Former Fishing Station Including House and Jetty

Listing Date: 5 December 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 345865

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12925

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Badachro, Eilean Tioram Fishing Station

ID on this website: 200345865

Location: Gairloch

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh

Parish: Gairloch

Traditional County: Ross-shire

Tagged with: Fishing station

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Description

Built circa 1840 as a fishing station;on a small island with stone jetty.2-storey and attic block now a house.5 irregular bays NW facing,harled with steeply pitched slated roof. 2 doors at ground floor;entrance to lobby flanked by kitchen window to right,wider doorway and window to left to former salt store.4 windows at 1st floor bedrooms with plate glass sashes,4 skylights to attic accommodation.Late 19th century wooden shed adjoining at right angles to left,of 6 irregular bays with corrugated sheet metal roof;probably for fish curing and storage.Broad sloping rubble jetty in front of house,and additional slipway with outbuildings for boat repair to SW.Rubble walled vegetable garden to rear of house.

Statement of Interest

Listed as a rare,almost complete example of an island fishing station,to which locally caught white fish and herring were brought to be salted and barrelled,for export by sea.The large jetty was required for the vessels to berth and unload.Rubble remains of the building in which fish livers were processed for fish oils lies to the E of the house.'Eilean Tioran' translates from the Gaelic as Dry Island;at low water the island is accessible from the mainland by causeway,although it was virtually self supporting,with grazing for a cow,a shed for hens,and the walled vegetable garden.

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