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Kirkton Of Lochalsh, Barn
Cruck Framed Barn (Post Medieval)
Site Name Kirkton Of Lochalsh, Barn
Classification Cruck Framed Barn (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 68684
Site Number NG82NW 15
NGR NG 82989 27241
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68684
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Kirkton of Lochalsh. Hamlet retaining a number of traditional single-storey cottages and some recent examples of the louvred barns typical to the area.
[The Lochalsh/Kintail barn remains a common agricultural building type in this wet region, and a good number of 18th and 19th century examples survive. Usually of cruck construction, they had non-loadbearing walls with wide wattled or louvred panels to allow ventilation; roofs were generally of a heavy heather thatch. 'A singular custom prevails in many parts of the county, of making their hay barns open, as to admit a free circulation of air ... The triangular top of the gables, which are closely in only with stakes ... are wound up closely with broom or brushwood ...' (James Robertson, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Inverness, 1808).]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
