Thatched Cottage, Stilligarry, South Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Cottage.

Thatched Cottage, Stilligarry, South Uist

WRENN ID
second-ledge-smoke
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NF 769 385
Coordinates
57.32302, -7.36901
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage in Stilligarry, South Uist, is probably from the 19th century and is a Skye-type thatched cottage. It is a single-storey building with a three-bay east front featuring a central door and a single window facing west. The walls are made of limewashed rubble with squared angles. The cottage has end stacks and a muran thatch roof, which is secured with netting, ropes, and iron weights, mostly consisting of cart axles and shafts.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage, Stilligarry, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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