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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
Thatch-roofed outbuilding to north, built after 1963.
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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