Tigh na Boireach, Isle of North Uist

Tigh na Boireach is a single-storey, roughly rectangular-plan cottage built from rubble, typical of the Hebridean style, and dating to around 1920. It was renovated for holiday accommodation in 1995. The cottage features a thatched roof, with whitewashed battered walls and rounded corners, and has small, deeply recessed window openings.

The front elevation faces southeast and is three bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by window openings. The entrance has a timber door with diamond-shaped glazing in the upper part. The northwest wall contains two window openings, while the southwest wall has one window opening. The northeast wall is solid with no openings.

The windows are framed with timber sash and case. The building includes end chimney stacks topped with replacement clay pots that have built-in flue vents.

The piended roof is thatched with marram grass and features a continuous thatched marram grass ridge. The entire roof is secured with large-gauge netting, which is weighted along the eaves with stones and bricks tied to the netting with string. This string of stones continues around the chimney stacks at both ends. The thatching is done in the Uist style, with the thatch resting on the outer wall and extending over the edge.

The interior was observed in 2017, showing internal fabric and layout that date from the 20th and 21st centuries.