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4, Balevulin
Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved. © Copyright and database right 2025. Public Sector Viewing Terms
Useful Links
- Canmore:
- TIREE, 4 BALEVULLIN
- Historic Scotland:
- HS Reference No 18477
General Details and Location
Category
AT RISK
Name of Building
Other Name(s)
Address
4, Balevulin
Locality
Postcode
Planning Authority
Divisional Area
Reference No
3875
Listing Category
B
OS Grid Ref
NL 95941 46762
Location Type
Rural
HS Reference No
18477
Description
Traditional single storey 2 bay cottage, with doorways to both north and south elevations. Single chimney to north gable: piended thatched roof with thatch overhanging eaves. Corrugated iron roofed extension to west.
Earlier houses on Tiree had 2 doors, the leaward one being used in gales. A rare survival of this feature.(Historic Scotland)
Earlier houses on Tiree had 2 doors, the leaward one being used in gales. A rare survival of this feature.(Historic Scotland)
Building Dates
Earlier 19th century
Architects
Category of Risk and Development History
Condition
Poor
Category of Risk
Critical
Exemptions to State of Risk
Field Visits
01/10/2008, 27/6/2012
Development History
October 2008: External inspection finds the building fabric is deteriorating. The roof structure appears to remain intact but the thatch is missing from some areas and overgrown with grass in others. Some window frames are missing, others in very poor condition.
July 2009: Noted as being recently re-roofed and re-thatched in 1983-4, and only recently vacated by a family at that time but in use as a store, with apparantly an interconnecting passage to the new build through the south gable, in the Thatched Building Survey of Tiree, Coll and Mull, 1985.
27 June 2012: External inspection finds thatch has gone from most of the roof and the southern end of the roof structure has collapsed. The remaining ridge remains but much of the roof structure is exposed.
Availability
Current Availability
Unknown
Appointed Agents
Price
Occupancy
Vacant
Occupancy Type
N/A
Present/Former Uses
Name of Owners
Type of Ownership
Unknown
Information Services
Additional Contacts/Information Source
Bibliography
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments, ARGYLL vol 3, p 41. Thatched Buildings Survey of Tiree, Coll and Mull by Argyll & Bute District Council, 1985
Online Resources
Classification
Cottages and Lodges
Original Entry Date
03-APR-09
Date of Last Edit
23/02/2016
