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The Corr

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Croft (Period Unassigned)

Site Name The Corr

Classification Croft (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Croft Complex

Canmore ID 93288

Site Number ND23NW 60

NGR ND 20250 35706

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Byre interior, showing flagstone partitions
Byre interior, showing flagstone partitionsBarn and stable from north westPhotographic copy and neg of finished drawing of plan of site with house and outhouses Digital copy of CAD/33/2View of stables and peat store at The Corr, from south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from north-north-west.Detail of roof structure in wash house at The Corr.View of remains of horse gang at The Corr, from east-south-east.View of remains of horse gang at The Corr, from south-west.Detail of stone-built remnant to south of The Corr.Interior view of north-east byre at The Corr.View of north-east outbuilding at The Corr, from north-east.Interior view of north-east outbuilding at The Corr.General view over duck pond at The Corr, from south-west.Distant view of croft from southGeneral view of croft from south westGarden and domestic range, from west. Digital copy of photograph.Byre, turnip-shed, horse-mill platform and peat-store from east. Digital copy of photograph.View of workshop enclosure at The Corr, from south-south-west.View of duck pond at The Corr, from west-north-west.View of wash house at The Corr, from west-north-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-east.View of north-east byre at The Corr, from south-east.View of north-east outbuildings at The Corr.Interior view of workshop and stores at The Corr.General view of The Corr, from east-south-east.View of main cottage at The Corr, from north-north-east.View of remains of horse gang at The Corr, from east.Interior view of north-east byre at The Corr.Detail of grindstoneCrofting activitiesDetail of north-west gable of main cottage at The Corr.View of barn, stables and peat store at The Corr, from south-south-east.Detail of stores at The Corr.Detail of byre at The Corr.Detail of iron thatch anchors on roof of hen house at The Corr.View of workshop, stores and byre at The Corr, from south-south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-east.General view of The Corr, from south-east.Interior of north-east byre at The Corr.View of east outbuilding at The Corr, from north.View of north-east outbuilding, possibly a pigsty, at The Corr.Detail of roof structure in workshop at The Corr.Detail of roof structure in workshop at The Corr.Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.View of cart shed at The Corr, from east-south-east.View of workshop enclosure at The Corr, from south-south-east.View of hen house and cart shed at The Corr, from north.View of The Corr, from south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from west-south-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from norh-west.Detail of workshop at The Corr.Detail of interior of hen house at The Corr, showing thatched roof structure.Detail of doorway to hen house at The Corr.Interior view of workshop and stores at The Corr.Detail of roof structure in wash house at The Corr.Interior view of cart shed at The Corr.View of north-east outbuilding at The Corr, from south-west.View of north-east outbuilding, possibly a pigsty, at The Corr.General view over duck pond at The Corr, from south-south-west.Oblique aerial view.Distant view of croft from southGeneral view of store and dwelling from south. Digital copy of photograph.View of cart shed at The Corr, from west-south-west.View of workshop enclosure at The Corr, from south.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south.View of workshop and stores at The Corr, from west-north-west.Detail of gate piers to workshop enclosure at The Corr.Interior view of workshop and stores at The Corr.Interior view of workshop and stores at The Corr.Interior view of wash house at The Corr.Detail of roof structure in wash house at The Corr.View of north-east outbuilding and possible pigsty at The Corr, from south-east.Detail of north-east outbuilding at The Corr.Detail of heavily overgrown thatch with exposed roof timbers; the Corr Farmstead.Oblique aerial view.Detail of gable of ruinous croft on east side of approach roadView of cart shed at The Corr, from south-west.Location view of The Corr, from west-north-west.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-east.View of workshop enclosure at The Corr, from west-south-west.Detail of interior of hen house at The Corr, showing thatched roof structure.View of cart shed at The Corr, from east-south-east.General view of The Corr, from east-north-east.Interior view of north-east byre at The Corr.Interior view of north-east byre at The Corr.Interior view of north-east byre at The Corr.Detail of roof structure in the workshop at The Corr.Peat neuk with cheese-pressDetail of iron thatch anchors on main cottage at The Corr.View of main cottage at The Corr, from south-east.View of main cottage at The Corr, from north.View of main cottage at The Corr, from north-north-east.View of main cottage at The Corr, from north-north-east.View of hen house at The Corr, from south-east.Detail of thatched roof to hen house at The Corr.Detail of east gable of workshop at The Corr.Detail of stone-built remnant to south of The Corr.

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Latheron
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Site Management (11 September 2008)

Buildings at Risk Register BARR

Traditional Caithness croft complex. 2 L-plan, single storey rubble ranges, comprising dwelling of longhouse type facing SW with byre in end SE bay with gable entrance (former access from kitchen). Barn and stable range at right angles, with garden enclosed; further L-plan range, one arm of which backs onto garden, with later 19th century hen house, wash house and cartshed. Dwelling has 2 doors, small windows, ridge and end stacks and rush thatch roof. Henhouse and workshop range also thatched; remainder with corrugated iron or asbestos roofing. Formerly all of cruck construction. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

The Corr is unique in the survival of an original extended longhouse, but it also represents the natural growth into a small self sufficient working farm of many functions with ranges of buildings still surviving; it has been lived and worked in the traditional way until relatively recently (Andrew PK Wright :Caithness Redundant Buildings Inventory)

Relatives of the last resident advise they took over the property circa 1820s. The last resident's (who crofted from the 1950s into her 90s) ancestor having enlarged the croft extensively with the aid of his father John Keith, a fisherman by occupation, who'd fought in the Crimean War. In the early 1900s two bedrooms were added. The main dwelling having flagstone floors from the Byre to the Closet. The main hearth had a particularly large lintel to counter balance the heating of two large cauldrons of water for the laundering of clothes. The interior remains virtually unchanged since this time. The last room to be added to the accommodation was an end room constructed in the late 1930s. Electricity and a phone line were only recently installed.

The phasing of construction at the site is thought to have been living area/ byre first with barn and stables next, then workshop (a thriving smithy), calf house, laundry room, hen house and cart garage. North of the byre survives a cast iron ring, set in lead, used for the tethering of horses.

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Field Visit (13 July 2015)

Scottish Thatched Building Survey

ND 20250 35707 Early 19th century croft complex, consisting of longhouse, byre, barn and stable range, hen house, wash house and cart shed. The listed building description states that the dwelling, hen house and workshop range all have rush-thatched roofs. The buildings have been vacant for some years now, and have been on the Buildings at Risk (BAR) Register since 2008 (BAR reference number 3623), at which time it was already recorded that the thatched roof was in poor condition and suggested it did ‘not appear to have been maintained for several years’. The roofs of the ancillary buildings to the south west of the longhouse have large areas of thatch missing, exposing the interiors of the buildings. Part of the longhouse range has been covered with a temporary corrugated iron covering, whilst the section to the west remains uncovered. The thatch that can be seen on the longhouse is heavily overgrown with vegetation.

Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 13 July 2015, survey no.117

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