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Detail of thatching, reconstructed cottar's house, Auchindrain township museum, Loch Fyne.
DP 240649
Description Detail of thatching, reconstructed cottar's house, Auchindrain township museum, Loch Fyne.
Date 6/8/2015
Collection Records of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, England
Catalogue Number DP 240649
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Reconstruction cottar’s house, part of the Auchindrain open-air museum of a traditional Scottish Highland farm township. The building is part of a group listing with 22 other structures. Historic maps have shown a building on this site in both 1789 and 1871, however, by 1946 the building on this site was abandoned and roofless. In the early 1980s, the building was excavated and was then ultimately reconstructed to simulate a cottar’s house from the early 19th century. The building was given a cruck-framed roof that was covered in bracken thatch. Since this time, the building has been deliberately left unused and abandoned, and the thatch left to deteriorate, as apparently a township would have always had some unoccupied buildings. The bracken thatch, which appears to have a continuous bracken ridge, is in a poor condition and is heavily overgrown with grassy vegetation.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1537966
File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap
Attribution & Restricted Use Summary
Attribution: © Courtesy of HES (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Collection)
Licence Type: Limited
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