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Summary

Description

Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Dating to circa 1769, this 2-storey 3-bay former tacksman's house with adjoining single storey range is remotely situated some miles to the West of Tyndrum. To the rear lying parallel is a detached predominantly drystone byre, presumably coeval, with battered walls and a replacement corrugated metal pitched roof. These buildings are excellent examples of Scottish vernacular architecture, the character of which remains significantly intact. Houses of this size and date which remain substantially externally unaltered are a rarity. It is a strong example of a tacksman's house.

The (North) entrance elevation consists of a later timber monopitch porch extension with an entrance at right angles which obscures the central entrance door. There is a window above and flanking windows. To the right is a single storey wing with a pair of windows to the left, the larger one formed out of a former door opening. To the far right is a timber boarded door. The end gable is blank. The end bay to the right of the South elevation has a gabled window breaking the eaves. There are gable stacks with thackstanes to the principal house and a central thackstoned ridge stack to the single storey wing. Immediately to the North lies the long byre range with openings to the South elevation only. The East gable is no longer extant.

BOUNDARY WALLS

There is a rubble boundary wall to the West and South of the property and sections of rubble wall to the East.

MATERIALS

The principal house is mostly harled with some painted stone and the single storey wing is painted or limewashed rubble. Predominantly timber sash and case windows with horns, plate glass or 2-pane over 2-pane. Timber boarded doors to the byre. Graded slate roof.

Statement of Special Interest

A tacksman was usually a relation of the clan chief and leased an amount of land from the chief and then sub-let it to cottars and tenants who worked the land.

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