472b South Lochboisdale, Isle of South Uist is a Grade A listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Cottage.
472b South Lochboisdale, Isle of South Uist
- WRENN ID
- deep-chalk-thistle
- Grade
- A
- 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 785 173
- Coordinates
- 57.13459, -7.31468
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
472b South Lochboisdale is a single-storey cottage with a roughly rectangular plan, typical of Hebridean architecture, likely built in the mid to late 19th century. The cottage features a thatched roof and rubble walls that are limewashed with rounded corners. The small window openings are deeply recessed. It is situated in South Lochboisdale, towards the southeast of the Isle of South Uist, set back from the road that runs along the south side of Loch Boisdale and is accessible only by foot. The cottage was the home of local Bard, Dòmhnall Aonghais Bhàin, until 2000 and has been unoccupied since then.
The principal northeast elevation has three bays, with a central door flanked by windows. There are two rectangular rubble-built chimneystacks on each end wall. The window to the right of the front door is a three-pane timber casement, while the window to the left is a two-pane non-traditional replacement.
The thatched roof is made of marram grass, but areas on the southeast end and northwest corner have been lost, exposing the roof timbers. Netting is still in place over the remaining thatch, secured by ropes, with some weighting stones around the chimneystacks.
The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
472b South Lochboisdale, Isle of 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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