Struan Cottage, Malacleit, Sollas, Isle of North 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.
Struan Cottage, Malacleit, Sollas, Isle of North Uist
- WRENN ID
- western-remnant-pearl
- 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 793 737
- Coordinates
- 57.63891, -7.37503
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Struan Cottage is a probably 19th-century Hebridean-type thatched cottage located in Malacleit, Sollas, on the Isle of North Uist. The cottage is single-storey with a three-bay east front featuring a central door. There is a single window in the center of the west wall. It has thick battered walls with curved angles, which are limewashed. The cottage has end chimney stacks and a marram thatch roof with a continuous thatched ridge, netted and weighted along the eaves by stones secured to the netting.
Currently, the cottage is used as holiday accommodation. To the east, there is a thatched outbuilding, built before 1967, which serves as storage.
Local climate
Struan Cottage, Malacleit, Sollas, Isle of North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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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