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Architecture Notes
Event ID 840659
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/840659
DESCRIPTION:
Early 19th century hay/threshing barn, long sides east/west; wide louvred
bays flank centre threshing/winnowing bay (now also louvred); similar gable
end louvred voids. White-washed rubble; round corners; remains of 2 cruck
stumps embedded in internal walls; piended corrugated iron roof. Measures
65' x 19'6" on plan.
REFERENCES:
NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, xiv (1836) p.135
NOTES:
Original thatched roof would have been carried by between 4 and 8 pairs of
scarfed crucks. One of a series of similar barns found in Lochalsh and
Kintail. In 1836 Eilanreach was an extensive sheep farm "finely situated near
the sea".
Information from Historic Scotland.
Listed 1971. Category B.
De-listed September 2011.
