Mrs Johnstone, Thatched Cottage, Bualadubh, Eochar, 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. 1 related planning application.
Mrs Johnstone, Thatched Cottage, Bualadubh, Eochar, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rubble-candle
- 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 788 461
- Coordinates
- 57.39206, -7.3481
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mrs Johnstone, Thatched Cottage, located in Bualadubh, Eochar, 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. There is one window at the rear and one on each of the short walls. The cottage is constructed of painted rubble with thick walls, and the angles are either squared or curved. It has end stacks and a muran thatch roof that is secured with ropes, netting, and stone weights.
Local climate
Mrs Johnstone, Thatched Cottage, Bualadubh, Eochar, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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