Tigh na Boireach, Isle of North Uist

Tigh na Boireach 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 1995. The cottage has a thatched roof, the battered walls are whitewashed with rounded corners, and the window openings are small and deeply recessed.

The front (southeast) elevation is three bays wide, comprising a central entrance flanked by window openings. It has a timber door with diamond-shaped glazing in the upper part. The northwest wall has two window openings, and the southwest wall has a single window opening. The northeast wall has no openings.

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 with a large-gauge netting. The netting is weighted along the eaves with stones and bricks 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 interior was seen in 2017. The internal fabric and layout date from the 20th and 21st centuries.