South gable end of The Old Croft House at Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Scotland, UK: built in early 1800s & used as a family home until 1957.
South gable end of The Old Croft House at the Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Scotland, UK: built in the early 1800s & used as a family home until 1957. Thick drystone walls with a hip-ended thatched roof covering squares of turf (divots) supported by timber beams & branches. The chimneys at either end are later insertions, initially peat smoke from an open fire percolated through the roof. The thatch of common rush (Juncus grass) or locally-grown reeds is netted & weighted down with stones at the eaves. The museum opened in 1965 as The Skye Cottage Museum, aiming to preserve a township of island thatched cottages as seen at the close of the C19th. This dwelling house, built in the early 1800s, was in use as a family home until 1957. These traditional Skye cottages are sometimes refered to as black houses, but they are not the classic Hebridean longhouse type.
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Location: Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Uig, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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