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Gorston Cottage
Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gorston Cottage
Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Trislaig, Gorsten Cottage
Canmore ID 108421
Site Number NN07SE 12
NGR NN 05735 70769
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/108421
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardgour
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
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
