Title

Black house, Colbost Folk Museum, Skye, Highland, Scotland.

Caption

Black house, Colbost Folk Museum, Skye, Highland, Scotland. A black house is a traditional Hebridean dwelling, consisting of a double dry stone wall packed with earth for insulation and a roof of turf or reed thatch on top of wooden rafters. There was no chimney and smoke from the hearth would have to seep out through the roof. The dwellings were usually partitioned with the human occupants living in one end and their livestock in the other. Similar houses were used elsewhere in the Scottish Highlands and in Ireland.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Peter Thompson

Reference

HRM19D68_268

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,6Mb) / 17,1in x 11,4in / 5120 x 3413 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings house architecture wall stone country construction farm housing British museum traditional color colour highland Scotland inner hebrides hebrides roof location SCOTTISH Britain skye dry stone wall concept thatched typical Gaelic croft Scots PETER THOMPSON TGN photograph Peter Thompson Colbost Folk Museum black house Hebridean Colbost Thompson Peter PTM photograph