Cnoc an Dudain, 7b Ruisgarry, Berneray is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 2019. Cottage.

Cnoc an Dudain, 7b Ruisgarry, Berneray

WRENN ID
open-cobalt-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 2019
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NF 927 818
Coordinates
57.72086, -7.16256
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7b Ruisgarry is a single-storey, roughly rectangular-plan cottage built from rubble, likely dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. It features a thatched roof and thick, battered rubble stone walls with slab-capped wallheads. The window openings are small and deeply recessed. The cottage is located on the north side of Bays Loch on the east side of the Isle of Berneray, near the west edge of Loch Watersee.

The front elevation, facing northwest, is four bays wide, with an entrance positioned to the left of center. The rear elevation, facing southeast, has two window openings, and there is one window on the northeast elevation.

The building has replacement side-sliding timber sash windows and a timber ledge and braced front door. The piended roof was reinstated around 2010 and is thatched with marram grass, featuring a continuous marram ridge. The roof is entirely netted and weighted along the eaves with stones, secured to the netting by wire. There is one stone chimneystack with a plain circular pot. Timber boards have been used above some of the window and door openings to help secure the thatch.

The interior of the cottage was seen in 2017, revealing that the internal fabric and layout are all from the 21st century. The interior roof has exposed timber rafters and timber boards.

Local climate

Cnoc an Dudain, 7b Ruisgarry, Berneray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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