Boreray Cottage, Isle of North Uist

Boreray Cottage is a single-storey, roughly rectangular-plan, rubble-built Hebridean-type cottage dating to around 1920. The cottage was renovated for use as holiday accommodation in the late 20th or early 21st century. The roof is thatched and the thick and battered rubble walls are whitewashed with rounded corners. The window openings are small and deeply recessed.

The front (southeast) elevation is three bays wide, comprising a central timber door with diamond-shaped glazing in the upper part, flanked by single windows. The wall to the northwest (rear elevation) has a single window opening. The southwest elevation has a single window to the left of the chimneystack. The northeast elevation has one window to the right of the chimneystack.

The windows are timber sash and case frames. The building has end chimney stacks topped with replacement clay pots with built-in flue vents.

The piended roof is thatched in marram grass and has a continuous thatched marram grass ridge. The entire roof has been netted and weighted along the eaves with stones tied to the netting with string. The string of stones continues around the chimney stacks at either end. The construction of the roof is in the Uist style of thatching with the thatch sitting on the outer wall and the thatch going over the edge.

The outbuilding to the northwest of the cottage has low dry-stone rubble walls with a recessed timber door opening. The roof is thatched in marram grass and is netted and weighted along the eaves and around the door opening with stones tied to the netting with string. There are no window openings in this building.