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MHG21135 - Thatched barn - Laidhay Croft Museum,

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A small thatched building at the Laidhay Croft Museum, Dunbeath, the most northerly of the complex. See also MHG15227 and MHG21138.

The building was listed at Category A with the rest of the complex in 1984.

The barn roof structure collapsed following a substantial snowfall in early January 2022. A building condition and assessement survey was undertaken by Addyman Archaeology in 2024. The assessment was intended to provide a preliminary understanding of the structure in support of the development of a proposed programme of reinstatement and conservation repair. The site visit took place on Tuesday 2nd July 2024. The study concluded that the entirety of the barn’s lower roof structure, comprising three composite cruck frames, was of the original build, likely datable to the mid 19th century, with no obvious evidence for later modification or repair. This was similarly the case for much of the upper roof structure, comprising purlins, batons, heather divots and the lower extents of the thatch itself. This extent of survival had been far from clear before the site assessment. In fact it seemed that the thatching of the roof had never seen little more than maintenance, its upper surface subject to periodic re-dressing. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred ND 1742 3058 (11m by 12m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND13SE
Civil Parish	LATHERON
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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