Ronald's Cottage, 16 Rhughasinish is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 2019. Cottage.

Ronald's Cottage, 16 Rhughasinish

WRENN ID
grey-cloister-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 April 2019
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NF 805 450
Coordinates
57.38309, -7.3184
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ronald's Cottage is a single-storey, roughly rectangular-plan, rubble-built Hebridean-type cottage, likely dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is located on the northeast coast of South Uist, on the eastern side of the bay of Grosavagh in Rhughasinish. The cottage was renovated in 2010 and is currently used as holiday accommodation.

The front elevation faces east and is three bays wide, featuring a central timber door with diamond-shaped glazing in the upper part. The rear (west) elevation has a single window opening. The cottage has two rectangular concrete chimneystacks on each end wall, and there is a later single window to the left of the chimneystack on the south elevation. The window openings are small, with deeply recessed four-pane timber casement frames.

The piended roof appears to be thatched in reed with a straw ridge, secured with a single horizontal wire. The entire roof is netted, including over the ridge, which is weighted at the eaves and around the bases of the chimney stacks by stones secured to the netting by wire.

The interior of the cottage was seen in 2017, and the internal fixtures and fittings are all early 21st century, following the refurbishment in 2010. The interior walls are whitewashed.

Local climate

Ronald's Cottage, 16 Rhughasinish 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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