Including Outbuilding, Garbh Allt Shiel

1880-1882, extended post 1896. Single storey, gabled, picturesque cottage by The Green, strong horizontal emphasis. Rectangular-plan principal block linked to U-plan service wings to rear. Stugged granite ashlar, base course and deeply overhanging, decoratively bracketed eaves.

E elevation: originally 3-bay, extended to left by 1 bay post 1896, and to right.

Broad gabled bay, slightly advanced, left of centre with stone mullioned tripartite window. Panelled door with 2-pane fanlight flanking closely to right. Tripartite, timber mullioned and transomed window to right. Blank wall-plane of discreet extension beyond stack to outer right. Single bay addition recessed slightly to outer left with timber mullioned bipartite window.

N elevation: 6-bay. Advanced lop-sided gable to outer left (post 1896 extension) with timber mullioned bipartite window to left and door and narrow window on return to right. Door flanking to right and 2 windows to bays flanking centre. Slightly advanced, broad gabled bay to outer right with 2 windows.

S elevation: 3-bay service wing to left with narrower window at centre shielded by eaves gabled over as canopy; narrow windows on return elevations. Recess at centre with panelled door flanked to right by window. Broad, advanced gable to outer right with single window at centre masking and extending from original mirror of service wing to left.

Sash and case windows with horizontal-pane and small-pane glazing. Timber brackets supporting overhanging eaves with pendant ball finials. Grey slates; lead ridge. Batter-coped granite stacks to wallheads, with tall, ornate cans (barley sugar, honeycomb and octagonal).

OUTBUILDING: to SW. Single-storey and loft, 3-bay, L-plan slatted timber outbuilding and bothy with granite base course and granite wall to S. Boarded timber doors and one sliding door. Piend-roofed loft opening to N. Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Gable sack to S. Rooflights.