Title

Interior of a Blackhouse, Arnol, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2009.

Caption

Interior of a black house, Arnol, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2009. Black houses were traditional houses which used to be common in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as well as Ireland and areas of Gaelic settlement in Nova Scotia. Most of the examples on Lewis had fallen into ruin by the late 1970s, but several have been restored, some to serve as holiday accommodation. They were traditionally built with thick walls with a core of earth surrounded by stone, and with roofs of thatced cereal straw over turf.

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Peter Thompson

Reference

HRM19D72_396

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

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

Keywords

building buildings interior house country farm housing British traditional room color colour Scotland hebrides location SCOTTISH Britain living room interior design furniture concept armchair typical stove Gaelic western isles wallpaper croft Outer Hebrides Isle of Lewis interior decoration living-room mantelpiece Scots PETER THOMPSON drawing-room sitting-room TGN photograph crofthouse Peter Thompson black house Hebridean Thompson Peter PTM Eilean Siar Arnol photograph