Mingulay, School
Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Schoolhouse (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mingulay, School
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Schoolhouse (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 170708
Site Number NL58SE 86
NGR NL 5652 8339
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/170708
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barra
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
To the south, between village and landing place (where the derrick of 1901 was a poor substitute for a proper pier and never much used), Alexander Ross's schoolroom for the Barra School Board, 1881 (de-roofed by fire, 1946), with a teacher's house added to the rear in 1894 (re-roofed in tin, 1986).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NL58SE 86 5652 8339
The mid-19th century schoolhouse of Mingulay now lies half buried in a sand-dune on a rise to the N of the township. A second structure lies buried in sand to the NW, and there is a sub-circular stone-walled yard or garden plot to the N. The school building is essentially a blackhouse, with rounded external corners and squared internal corners, a central entrance between two splayed window openings on the S and a fireplace in the W end with a square chimney rising 0.65m in height above the wall. The interior measures 9.5m by 3.9m transversely and the walls are up to 1.5m in thickness and 1.2m in height. It is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map and annotated 'School (Boys and Girls)' (Outer Hebrides 1880, sheet LXX).
MING03 251
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 25 June 2003.
Field Visit (25 June 2003)
The mid-19th century schoolhouse of Mingulay now lies half buried in a sand-dune on a rise to the N of the township. A second structure lies buried in sand to the NW, and there is a sub-circular stone-walled yard or garden plot to the N. The school building is essentially a blackhouse, with rounded external corners and squared internal corners, a central entrance between two splayed window openings on the S and a fireplace in the W end with a square chimney rising 0.65m in height above the wall. The interior measures 9.5m by 3.9m transversely and the walls are up to 1.5m in thickness and 1.2m in height. It is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map and annotated 'School (Boys and Girls)' (Outer Hebrides 1880, sheet LXX).
MING03 251
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 25 June 2003.
