Survey Data

Reg No

11225002


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Original Use

House


In Use As

House


Date

1810 - 1830


Coordinates

310767, 221088


Date Recorded

20/06/2002


Date Updated

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Description

Detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1820. Rendered rubble walls. uPVC casement windows. Timber door in porch. Brick eaves course, blank gables and rere (west) elevation to road. Gable coping with returned kneelers. Pitched slate roof and rendered chimney stacks. Lean-to outbuilding to north. Projecting stone in gable possibly used to secure original thatch ropes.

Appraisal

This vernacular house forms part of a group of adjacent buildings, in a clachan or farm village. It has local stylistic features including returned kneelers, linear development and blind rere walls. Such features maintain local rural identity and reflect old social structures.