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Detail of weighted thatch around chimney stack; Eochar, 96 Bualadubh, South Uist.
DP 241468
Description Detail of weighted thatch around chimney stack; Eochar, 96 Bualadubh, South Uist.
Date 10/6/2015
Collection Records of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, England
Catalogue Number DP 241468
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Probably 19th century cottage, listed as having a ‘muran thatch roof, overhanging eaves, secured with netting and stone weights’. The cottage has been renovated for use as holiday accomodation but retains a marram thatched roof with continuous marram ridge. The entire roof has been netted, including across the ridge, which is weighted just above the eaves and around the chimney stacks at either end by stones secured in a continuous string by thin rope passed through the holes in the netting. The listing description for the building notes that a ‘shed to north (beside road) [is] also thatched; similar outbuilding to south now derelict’. The shed to the north that is listed as being thatched is no longer there, though web-based satellite imagery that is now out of date confirms its once existence. The listing description should be updated accordingly.
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