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Tiree, 4 Balevullin

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Cottage (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century)

Site Name Tiree, 4 Balevullin

Classification Cottage (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century)

Canmore ID 145050

Site Number NL94NE 31

NGR NL 95941 46762

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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View from WView from NWInterior. View of the timber roof structure within the North room of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin. The remains of plaster can also be seen to the walls.View of the third bay of the East elevation of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin, taken from the East. The thickness and curved form of the external wall to the North of the cottage can be appreciated in this photograph, as can the outward tilt of the chimney stack.View of the central entrance door on the West elevation of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin. Although the West elevation faces the road, the principal elevation appears to have been the East elevation (at least laterly).Detail. View of the North-West corner of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin, taken from the North. The image shows the dry stone construction of the walls and the remains of the thatched roof.Detail. View of the entrance doorway within the central bay of the East elevation of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin. Stones can be seen hanging across the door opening - these were attached by rope (laterly to wire netting) and used as weights to hold the thatching down. Originally they would have sat above the level of the wallhead.Interior. View of the entrance hallway of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin. The photograph was taken from the entrance door on the East elevation and is looking North-West.Interior. Detail. View of the timber roof construction in the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin. The photograph was taken in the North room of the cottage, looking North.General view of the traditional thatched cottage and adjoining building at 4 Balevullin, taken from the South-West.Detail. View of the meeting of the roof ridge and hip to the South end of the traditional thatch cottage at Balevullin. The construction of turf layed over timber rafters can be seen, as can the remains of wire netting, which holds the marram grass thatching in place.Detail. View of the window within the first bay of the East elevation of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin.Detail. Detail above entrance door of East elevation of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin. Stones can be seen hanging across the door opening - these were attached by rope (laterly to wire netting) and used as weights to hold the thatching down. Originally they would have sat above the level of the wallhead.Interior. Detail. View of the timber roof construction in the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin. The photograph was taken in the North room of the cottage, looking North-West.View of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin from the South-West.Detail. View of the wallhead at the South-West corner of the thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin.View of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin taken from the North.View of ruined former traditional 19th century single storey cottage, roof and thatching mostly collapsed, Tiree, Balevullin.View across the West slope of the roof of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin, taken from the South.View of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin taken from the West.Detail. View of the window within the first bay of the West elevation of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin. Stones can be seen hanging across the window opening - these were attached by rope (laterly to wire netting) and used as weights to hold the thatching down. Originally they would have sat above the level of the wallhead.View of the first and second bays of the West elevation of the traditional cottage at 4 Balevullin. Stones can be seen hanging across the window opening, and above the door - these were attached by rope (laterly to wire netting) and used as weights to hold the thatching down. Originally they would have sat above the level of the wallhead. The thickness of the external wall to the North and the outward tilt of the chimney can also be appreciated in this photograph.View of the East elevation of the traditional thatched cottage at 4 Balevullin, taken from the East. Although there is also a door to the West, this appears to have been the principal elevation (at least laterly). The thickness and curved form of the external wall to the North of the cottage can be appreciated in this photograph, as can the outward tilt of the chimney stack. The pump in the foreground was first depicted on the 2nd edition map of 1899.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Tiree
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NL94NE 31 9594 4676

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building, one roofed long building, which is approximately 40m in length, and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Tiree etc 1881, sheet lxiv). One partially roofed, one roofed building and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1977).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 19 August 1998

Further Details

Site Management (3 April 2009)

Buildings at Risk Register BARR

Traditional single storey 2 bay cottage, with doorways to both north and south elevations. Single chimney to north gable: piended thatched roof with thatch overhanging eaves. Corrugated iron roofed extension to west.

Earlier houses on Tiree had 2 doors, the leaward one being used in gales. A rare survival of this feature.(Historic Scotland)

Go to BARR website 

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Activities

Field Visit (27 August 2014)

Scottish Thatched Building Survey

NL 95936 46772 Listing descriptions reads ‘Earlier 19th century traditional single storey 2 bay cottage. Single chimney to north gable: piended thatched roof with thatch overhanging eaves. Corrugated iron roofed extension to west’. Noted in the Thatched Building Survey of Tiree, Coll and Mull (1985) as being recently re-roofed and re-thatched in 1983-4, and only recently vacated by a family at that time but in use as a store, with apparantly an interconnecting passage to the new build through the south gable. The roof structure has mostly collapsed, along with the thatch. There remains some highly deteriorated evidence of thatching material as well as netting, and what remains is heavily overgrown with vegetation. It has been on the Buildings at Risk Register since 2009 (BAR reference number 3875).

Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 27 August 2014, survey no.039

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Early 19th century

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