Skye, 2 Luib
Thatched Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, 2 Luib
Classification Thatched Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 173639
Site Number NG52NE 24
NGR NG 56475 27982
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/173639
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Luib Nineteenth century crofting and fishing village with a good group of traditional Skye dwellings, though most are now roofless. An exception is No 2, rescued and re-thatched several times in recent decades. The stoneweighted straw thatch is piended between wallhead stacks and rounded at the ridge; mudmortared rubble walls are thick and roundangled; the front is of three bays with a central House, with simplest Arts & Crafts detail. door. But like No 5, which was reconstructed as a croft house museum before recently falling derelict, its appearance today is a late 20th-century interpretation of the original.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Field Visit (12 June 2015)
NG 56474 27983 19th century cottage listed as having a ‘piended thatched roof’. The cottage, which is now the last thatched building in the village of Luib, has been renamed and restored as a holiday let. The roof appears to be thatched in reed with a continuous straw ridge, and the ridge has been sobed with two horizontal rows of straw, secured to the ridge by entwined straw. The roof is entirely netted, including across the ridge, which has been weighted by stones hanging from the netting by wire at the eaves. Additionally, the netting has been secured by metal pegs that have been driven into the roof. Above the door and window openings on the front elevation of the cottage, the stones have been secured to the netting just above the eaves, as opposed to hanging below.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 12 June 2015, survey no.094
