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Detail of eaves showing thatch beneath wooden boards; Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin.
DP 241252
Description Detail of eaves showing thatch beneath wooden boards; Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin.
Date 9/8/2014
Collection Records of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, England
Catalogue Number DP 241252
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Listed as a late 18th to early 19th century ‘cruck-framed cottage and byre under continuous roofline’, owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1992. The building retains early thatch, which was raked back in the 1940s and covered with a corrugated iron roof. There is visible evidence externally of both straw and bracken thatch from underneath the wooden soffit that runs along the eaves of the building. The roof of this building was the subject of an archaeological investigation in 2011, when the corrugated iron roof was temporarily removed (Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin - Assessment of the Thatched Roof for the National Trust for Scotland’, Holden, 2011). The report reveals areas of bracken, rush, rye straw, wheat straw and cereal straw thatch, which cover a substratum of turf laid vegetation-side down. Turf is also used as a packing material at the skews. The presence of wooden pegs throughout suggests the thatch was fixed to the roof using a ‘crook and caber’ technique.
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Licence Type: Limited
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