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Cadderlie

Cruck Framed Building (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Site Name Cadderlie

Classification Cruck Framed Building (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Canmore ID 86748

Site Number NN03NW 1.01

NGR NN 04634 36978

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

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Field Visit (July 1970)

Cruck-framed Building, Cadderlie.

This is the best preserved of a small group of buildings situated on level ground about 220 m from the W shore of Loch Etive and 5 km NE of Bonawe Quarries. It comprises a dwelling-house and byre, each originally of five bays divided by cruck-trusses, and is probably of late 18th- or early 19th-century date. The byre, which is now roofless, remains substantially unaltered, although the wall-head has been raised by 0.53 m at a recent period. The dwelling-house was remodelled in about the middle of the 19th century, and further blocking of windows took place when it subsequently passed out of domestic use.

The building measures 22'5 m by 5'3 m over walls (Fig. 226). The long axis runs from ESE to WNW but will be described as if from E to W. A massive boulder-plinth supports walls of lime-mortared granite rubble which have been harled and whitewashed. In both parts of the building the cruck-couples have been sawn off below wall-head level; the surviving stumps are scarf-jointed with wooden pegs. The byre, which occupies the W portion of the structure, is entered by a door in the N wall; there are no other openings. A stone-built drain passes below the wall to the E of the door and can be traced for about 6 m, leading into lower ground to the N of the dwelling.

In the original arrangement, the dwelling-house had opposed doorways in the N and S walls about 7.6 m from the E wall. There is no evidence of window openings; if these existed, they must have been in the central bay where there are later openings. The substantial wall separating byre from dwelling, although not bonded into the side-walls, is probably an original feature; the consistent spacing of the cruck-couples suggests this, and the wall certainly antedates the comprehensive remodelling that turned this simple dwelling into an improved cottage of normal 19th-century type. In its altered form the house had a central doorway in the S wall, flanked by windows; in the N wall there is an additional opening which preserves its small sash window. Although no evidence of internal partitions survives, there were evidently two principal rooms, each having an inserted fireplace in the end-wall. The new plan required a different system of bays, and the cruck-couples were removed before alterations began.

RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1970

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