Scottish Thatched Building Survey

Date 2014 - 2015

Event ID 1010911

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Type Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010911

Historic Scotland commissioned the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) to undertake a survey to identify and assess the condition of thatched roofs across Scotland.

Infromation from Historic Environment Scotland, June 2016

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1011421	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NM 31458 21344 Listed building description reads ‘Small Highland cottage (Skye type). Straw-thatched roof with piended ends. Chimney-vent at W end’, however, the listing notes simply read ‘derelict’. The building is now a ruin, the rubble walls survive up to around the height of the door lintel and the whole site is overgrown with vegetation. Canmore records from a visit to the building in 1980 note that the ‘Thatched cottar’s house [...] probably dates from the first half of the 19th century; it was occupied until about 1968, but has deteriorated rapidly since that date’. [...]	12 August 2014
1011433	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NL 95459 47079 19th century cottage with adjoining byre to the north, both listed as having a ‘thatched piended roof’. The roofs of both the cottage and barn are thatched in marram, each with a continuous marram ridge. Both roofs have been completely netted, including across the ridge, which has been weighted down with stones and thin ropes just above the wallheads and openings, and down the sides of the chimney stacks of the cottage. Turf has been placed upon the wallheads around part of the cottage and barn, whilst some parts of the wallheads have been left exposed. The notes of the listing entry record that the ‘cottage [was] modernised in 1982’ and the barn was ‘restored in traditional fashion in 1985’. [...]	28 August 2014
1011424	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NL 98557 41519 Listing description for the property reads ‘19th century traditional single storey 3-bay cottage with centre door, rubble-built, wide eaves (“tobhta”), 1 gable end stack; piended tarred felt roof with small skylight’. It does not state whether the building was originally thatched, although this is probable. The building is currently on the Buildings at Risk Register (BAR reference number 3881). [...]	27 August 2014

Scottish Thatched Building Survey

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