27, Big Sand
Croft (19th Century)
Site Name 27, Big Sand
Classification Croft (19th Century)
Canmore ID 79370
Site Number NG77NE 7
NGR NG 75139 79252
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG77NE 7 centred 75160 79106.
This site was visited as part of the RCAHMS Scottish Farm Buildings Survey. The farmstead comprises two ruinous buildings. One of these is the original farmstead which is a linear range consisting of a house and byre.
Information from RCAHMS (ACD) 22 January 2008; NMRS MS 2560/273
Traditional Wester Ross cottage; single storey 3 bays with later byre extension at west gable. Random rubble with some harl pointing. Off-centre door, flanking windows; left (west window) original size with 4-pane glazing, right windows slightly enlarged with modern glazing. Single small window, centre rear. Stone end stack at east gable apex; thatched "lum" with wooden box lining showing through worn thatch at west gable apex. Thatched roof held down with wire netting stones. Corrugated iron roof to end byre. Small rubble thatched outbuilding stands by cottage; of similar build and date as house.
Only thatched "lum" remaining in Ross and Cromarty District One other thatched house inhabited in District (Applecross). 27, Big Sand lived in until June 1981 (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Field Visit (8 June 2015)
NG 75144 79252 The building has been on the Buildings at Risk (BAR) Register since 1990 (BAR reference number 816). BAR inspection notes in 1997 records the cottage to be ruinous and its roof collapsed. The cottage is listed as having a ‘thatched roof held down with wire netting stones’, with a ‘small rubble thatched outbuilding’. The cottage and outbuilding were listed together in 1982, and the listing notes at this time recorded it to be the ‘only thatched “lum” remaining in Ross and Cromarty District’ with only ‘one other thatched house inhabited in [the] District (Applecross)’. The notes also record that the cottage was lived in until 1981. The listing description should be updated accordingly.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 08 June 2015, survey no.089
