Field Visit

Date 9 May 2014

Event ID 1011455

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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Scottish Thatched Building Survey

NT 24012 67262 18th century cottage, listed as having ‘slight alterations’ and being ‘restored by J Wilson Paterson for Edinburgh Corporation 1959-62’. The skews of the building are lower than the depth of the thatch and a cement fillet has been put in place to secure the thatch at the skews. The listed building description reads ‘raised skews’, so it would appear the skews or level of the thatch has been altered since the date of listing. The thatch is extremely neat and is left entirely uncovered, and the concrete ridge appears in a new condition. Part of a group of thatched cottages of the same period (see surveys 059-062 & 064 for the other entries).

Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 09 May 2014, survey no.063