Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567071
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567071
No 87 Horve (Horogh), later 19th century Felt-roofed fisherman's cottage with battered walls, a rare survival marooned among council housing. Originally thatched, its small windows have painted reveals for extra light. Owing to the relative prosperity of the herring boom, Barra is not littered, as the Uists are, with ruins of later 19th-century thatched dwellings. Instead, the blackhouses described in 1840 as 'of a most miserable description' were replaced relatively early on with a colourful variety of 'improved' dwellings, some with corrugated iron walls between stone gables. Regrettably, many of these now lie abandoned.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
