Gorston Cottage

An interesting assortment of traditional croft houses is still to be found along Ardgour's steep-sided, tree-fringed shoreline to north and south east of the Narrows, though many lie abandoned today. At the foot of Meall Ruadh,Gorston (Goirtean) Cottage is a good example of the mid-19th-century Lochaber type, its rounded angles squared off at the wallhead to support a steep-piended slate roof in lieu of thatch. Along Loch Eil's once heavily crofted southern shore, a harled and slated cottage, dated 1817, at Blaich has been adapted as a matchbox-sized Church of

Scotland Mission Hall (latterly shared with the Free Church), its pointed door and flanking windows the only external hint.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk