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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.
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.

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Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit