Detail of roof corner on small traditional cottage showing repairs to thatching, Auchindrain township museum, Loch Fyne.

Description  Detail of roof corner on small traditional cottage showing repairs to thatching, 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 240655

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Small traditional cottage, now 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 all from the late 18th and 19th centuries. Bell a’Phuill’s House, as it is now known, was occupied by 1841 as a dwelling. It was lived in until the death of Isabella McCallum (Bell a’Phuill) in 1915 but thereafter fell into disuse, and by 1946 was roofless and derelict. The building was repaired and re-roofed in 1975, and has been regularly re-thatched since. It is thatched in rush, as this material grows in abundance around the site, and was last re-thatched in 2011, receiving a top-dressing in 2012. The ridge appears to have been thatched more recently than the rest of the roof, which has an amount of mossy and grassy vegetation growth across the surface of the thatch. The ridge has been scobed with two horizontal lines of thin branch.

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