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North Uist, 24 Claddach Baleshare, Thatched Cottage
Thatched Cottage (19th Century)
Site Name North Uist, 24 Claddach Baleshare, Thatched Cottage
Classification Thatched Cottage (19th Century)
Canmore ID 238264
Site Number NF86SW 66
NGR NF 80563 62984
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/238264
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Hebridean-type thatched cottage. Single storey; centre doored east front, 2 deeply-set windows, door lintel raised; single window to west and to south; modern glazing; reveals partly repaired in concrete. End stacks; muran thatch roof, secured above inner wallhead with steel tubes, stones and bricks. Shown on 1st ed O.S. (surveyed 1878) (Historic Scotland)
Photographic Survey (6 June 2012)
This building was photographed during the Uists Landscapes Project.
Field Visit (9 June 2015)
NF 80567 62979 Probably 19th century cottage, listed as having a ‘muran thatch roof, secured above inner wallhead with steel tubes, stones and bricks’. The building is now a ruin and has been on the Buildings at Risk (BAR) Register since 1996 (BAR reference number 1449) at which time it was recorded to be ‘empty and deteriorating’. BAR inspections in 2009 record that the roof had collapsed, along with some of the chimney structure, and by 2010 ‘external inspection finds the building remains a ruinous shell’. Some of the roof structure, including netting that would have once secured the thatch, can currently be seen protruding upwards from within the ruined shell. The listing description for the building should be updated accordingly.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 09 June 2015, survey no.263
