Description

Late 18th century with minor alteration, late 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse, with bays widely spaced. Limewashed rubble. Door to centre masked by later gabled, red corrugated-iron porch; window flanking to left, door to right (to byre and hayloft); window to each bay at 1st floor. Blank gable to right. lean-to porch abutting gable to left.

Timber 4-pane sash and case windows, (1 hopper timber window to 1st floor front); boarded doors. Black corrugated-iron roof; coped skews and coped stone gablehead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

Dressler explains that Howlin (formerly Hulin) was one of 8 farms on Eigg leased to Clanranald tacksmen. The farm was leased in 1770 to Lachlan MacKinnon who, reportedly, built the present house with his son, Hector, after the model of Cleadale House (demolished): it was apparently the first house of lime and glass on the island, with a byre and hayloft at one end. It is believed to have been thatched until the late 19th century when the gable ends were raised. MacKinnon earned his income from a large flock of sheep and from kelping. The Statistical Account describes the house as the only one on the island with an orchard and walled garden.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17829536

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)