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Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist

A Category B Listed Building in Beinn na Foghla agus Uibhist a Tuath, Na h-Eileanan Siar

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.511 / 57°30'39"N

Longitude: -7.2504 / 7°15'1"W

OS Eastings: 85709

OS Northings: 858924

OS Grid: NF857589

Mapcode National: GBR 88HW.1TT

Mapcode Global: WGW3R.LGMT

Plus Code: 9C9JGP6X+CR

Entry Name: Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist

Listing Name: Taigh Glaic, Cladach Chairinis, Uibhist a Tuath / Glaic Cottage, Claddach Carinish, Isle of North Uist

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Last Amended: 16 March 2021

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351526

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17564

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: North Uist, Claddach Carinish, Cottage

ID on this website: 200351526

Location: North Uist

County: Na h-Eileanan Siar

Electoral Ward: Beinn na Foghla agus Uibhist a Tuath

Parish: North Uist

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Late 19th 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'.

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