Scottish Thatched Building Survey

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Date 2014 - 2015

Event ID 1010911

Category Project

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
1011461	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NO 23777 11772 18th century, two two-storey houses listed as being ‘slated (thatch at back)’. The front pitch of the roof is slated. View to the back of the building could not be accessed on the day of visiting, however, web-based street view images appear to show that the back pitch of the roof is also slated. There appears to be no thatch left on this house, however, further research into this building is required, and the listing description updated accordingly. [...]	15 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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