Boreray Cottage, Isle of North Uist

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

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

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

An outbuilding to the northwest of the cottage has low dry-stone rubble walls and a recessed timber door opening. Its roof is also thatched with 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 outbuilding.