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Ardintoul
Cruck Framed Cottage (Post Medieval)
Site Name Ardintoul
Classification Cruck Framed Cottage (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 86676
Site Number NG82SW 11
NGR NG 835 240
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/86676
- Council Highland
- Parish Glenshiel
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Ardintoul Remote only since Loch Duich ceased to be a principal thoroughfare, this settlement on the crescent of Ardintoul Bay is accessible today by foot from Totaig, or forestry track via Glen Bernera.
Ardintoul House, 18th century; later additions A wide-gabled, steep-roofed tacksman's house, still prominent beside a stand of trees. Most significant of its various ancillary buildings is the ruin of a 70 ft long Kintail barn, formerly with timber louvred sides, now reduced to rubble stumps within which the footings of cruck blades are still embedded.
[James Hogg wrote of Ardintoul Barn in 1803: 'No sooner had the boat [from Kirkton] touched the shore than we were met by the owner, who was in uncommonly high spirits, that being his wedding day ... We then marched to the barn, where the music was playing, and joined with avidity in their Highland reels...'.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
