Chamberbane Cruck-framed Cottage, Strathtummel, Pitlochry

Chamberbane is a single-storey cruck-framed cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, now used as a store, with 19th and 20th century alterations. It is located at Strathtummel, Pitlochry, on a sloping site that rises to the north and falls away to the south.

The cottage is roughly rectangular on plan and four bays wide. It is built of coursed rubble stone with naturally square and flat stones used at the corners and around the openings. The walls are battered and built on projecting footings of large rounded boulders. The building sits on a rubble stone platform. The roof is steeply pitched and carries four pairs of timber cruck couples, with a turf covering beneath corrugated iron sheeting, boxed timber skews and eaves, and turf beam filling to the wallheads.

The front (south) elevation has irregular openings: a single window to the western part and a door opening to the eastern part flanked by two windows. The gabled east and west elevations have no openings. A single opening in the rear (north) elevation was added in the 20th century. The windows are eight-pane lying timber sashes and one six-pane sash. The recessed timber door is two-leaved. The chimney stack on the south pitch of the east gable is perforated metal and is thought to have been constructed from a biscuit tin. A yellow brick chimney stack to the left-of-centre dates from the 20th century.

The interior comprises two rooms divided by a rendered rubble stone chimney breast flanked by timber partitions and a door. The smaller western room has walls and ceiling fully lined with timber boarding, a standard cast iron fireplace, and a timber board floor. The eastern room has been altered with internal partitions removed, walls largely lined with timber boarding, and a concrete floor. The roof structure is exposed and comprises three pairs of pegged timber cruck blades joined by yokes to support the ridge tree. The purlins and cabers, which carry the turf roof covering, comprise timbers with bark still attached. Later sawn timber beams spanning between the wallheads have been added. The east chimney breast is blocked and the west contains an early 19th century style fireplace with a wrought iron swey. The cottage has been used as a potato store from the latter-half of the 20th century.

To the south is a separate single-storey and attic rectangular-plan outbuilding dating from at least the mid-19th century. It comprises two attached buildings stepping down the hillside with random rubble stone walls, corrugated iron sheeting on steeply pitched roofs, and a high-level door to the north gable accessed by a short stone forestair.

Immediately to the rear of the cottage, separated by a ditch, is a single-storey rectangular rubblestone outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof, now used as a garage and wood store.

The farmhouse lies to the north and was extended in the mid-to-late 20th century. The farmhouse and the outbuilding to the north are excluded from this listing.