Description

Probably 19th century, single-storey, three narrow bays with central door, Skye-type thatched cottage. Single window in centre of fear wall. Rubble-built with roughly-squared angles and painted reveals. End chimney stacks. Heather thatch roof, netted and secured with wire and stone weights.

The cottage was renovated as holiday accommodation after 2004.

Statement of Interest

These vernacular buildings, once prolific across Na h-Eileanan Siar, are now extremely rare. Seann Taigh continues to show regional traditional building methods and materials and retains a significant proportion of its historic fabric, 19th century footprint, vernacular form and character. Notable features include the thick and battered rubble walls and a marram 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 an intact 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.

Seann Taigh is part of a group traditional cottages located to the west of the Eavat Lochs in South Lochboisdale. The cottage retains its historic settling as part of a mid to later 19th century small scale rural crofting settlement. This group includes a thatched cottages at 466 South Lochboisdale (LB18744) and 472b South Lochboisdale (LB18745) and traditional rubble built cottage to the north of 472b South Lochboisdale (LB52495). The remains of a number of other traditional 19th and early 20th century rubble-built cottages and outbuildings can be seen around the settlement of South Lochboisdale.

Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review. Previously listed as '472 South Lochboisdale and Byre and Shed (Campbell)'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17575075

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