Mallaig Bay. Cottages.
SC 746291
Description Mallaig Bay. Cottages.
Date 21/9/1893
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 746291
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of IN 926
Scope and Content Mallaig, Highland Mallaig, a fishing village at the tip of the Lochaber peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, overlooks Skye across the Sound of Sleat. In 1883, when this photograph was taken by Erskine Beveridge, it consisted of a few cottages clustered round a stone-built pier. These cottages, built in a traditional architectural style found throughout the Lochaber district, are small stone-built dwellings with thatched roofs. Their distinctive features are the hip-ended roofs and the overhanging eaves of thatch that form a fringe around the wall-tops. The roofs are thatched with grass, heather or bracken which is held down by a network of ropes stretched across the roof. The windows on each side of the door are set well back from the face of the wall with their tops reaching very close to the eaves of overhanging thatch. The internal arrangement of the cottages was very simple, with a kitchen on one side and a room on the other. A small apartment, sufficiently large to accommodate a bed, usually lay between. The floor was of beaten earth, although wooden flooring may have been introduced latterly. The walls were often whitewashed, or lined with wooden boarding covered in paper. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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