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Latitude: 56.6814 / 56°40'53"N
Longitude: -6.4584 / 6°27'30"W
OS Eastings: 127048
OS Northings: 763295
OS Grid: NM270632
Mapcode National: GBR BCF1.Y9X
Mapcode Global: WGYBG.RBR8
Plus Code: 9C8MMGJR+HJ
Entry Name: Sorisdale Cottage
Listing Name: Sorisdale Cottage
Listing Date: 21 May 2008
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 399921
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51094
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200399921
Location: Coll
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Parish: Coll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Late 18th/ early 19th century with later additions. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan vernacular cottage with lower late 19th/earlier 20th century bay to right and late 20th century lean-to extension to rear. Painted rubble construction with gently battered walls and asymmetrically sized deep-set window openings.
Mixture of timber astragalled windows and fixed top-hung casements. Timber boarded doors. Corrugated sheet roofing with angled skew covers. Rooflights. Short rubble stacks with plain clay cans. Single gutter feeding water butt to rear extension.
The cottage at Sorisdale is a surviving element of a once thriving crofting community. The remains of other buildings in the group can be seen to the SE of the cottage; most are ruinous with only the stone walls remaining.
The cottage has been well maintained and adapted to modern use with the addition of a small extension. These alterations are sympathetic to the original building, using small window openings and traditional materials, and do not detract from the historic character of the cottage. The cottage was originally thatched, but the roof is now covered with corrugated sheeting to the same profile.
A later 19th century photograph shows the Sorisdale settlement with the thatched cottage in the foreground without the later bay to the N. Mackenzie's map of 1775 has 'Sodisdil' for the spelling of Sorisdale.
Remnants of boundary wall to South. Garden enclosed by fencing.
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