Smithy Cottage, Crask Of Aigas

Smithy Cottage, located in Crask of Aigas, is a single-storey and attic cottage built in the later 19th century. It has a rectangular plan with three bays and features a slightly later rear outshot that creates an L-shape. Originally part of the Aigas estate, this cottage served as a smithy.

The front elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a central door and an advanced porch supported by rustic timber columns, resembling tree trunks. The porch has a boarded gablehead with a king post and angle braces, highlighted in black. The porch was enclosed with glazing and timber boarding in 2002. On either side of the porch are single windows, and above, there are two pitched dormer windows set into the roof, centered above the ground floor windows. Decorative cast-iron finials adorn both the porch and the dormer windows.

The southwest elevation is plain but features decorative bargeboarding. The northwest elevation includes a long and narrow central window with another window to the left, and a small outshot on the far left with a door and window on the right return. The northeast elevation is also plain, with bargeboarding on the cottage gable and a simple outshot wall to the right.

The cottage has late 20th-century doors and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. It is topped with a pitched roof covered in graded slate, featuring coped stone stacks near the gable apex with circular clay cans. There is a rear central roof light and scroll detail on the bargeboards, which includes a central heart drop pendant.

Inside, the cottage has a plain, off-centre timber staircase and coombed ceilings on the attic floor.