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  2. Scottish Vernacular - Wikipedia

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    More than 17,000 crofts can still be found in Scotland. [7] Cruck house A type of dwelling used throughout England, Scotland and Wales during the medieval period. The frame of the structure uses "siles" or "couples" (a type of fork) for the end walls. The walls do not support the roof, which is instead carried on the cruck frame. [8]

  3. Colbost - Wikipedia

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    Blackhouse at Colbost Folk Museum. The Colbost Croft Museum, also known as the Folk Museum, is a simple open-air exhibit, set in a garden. At the centre of this simple grassy garden is a perfectly preserved 19th century Hebridean crofter's blackhouse, of which there would have been thousands on Skye before the tragic Highland clearances.

  4. Croft (land) - Wikipedia

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    A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer , especially in rural areas.

  5. Hermits and Termits - Wikipedia

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    Hermits and Termits is a Georgian house in St Leonard's, Edinburgh, Scotland.Named for the lands of St Leonard's Hospital, it was completed around 1734 and restored from 1982 after a period of dereliction.

  6. Blackhouse - Wikipedia

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    Restored blackhouse in a museum on Trotternish, Skye. The origin of the name blackhouse is of some debate. On the Isle of Lewis, in particular, it seems to have been used to distinguish the older blackhouses from some of the newer white-houses (Irish: teach bán [ˌtʲax ˈbˠaːnˠ], teach geal [ˌtʲax ˈɟalˠ]; Scottish Gaelic: taigh-geal [t̪ʰə ˈkʲal̪ˠ]), with their harled (rendered ...

  7. Isle of Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Once dried, the peats are carted to the croft and built into a large stack. These often resembled the shape of the croft house – broad, curved at each end and tapered to a point about 2 metres high. They varied in length from about 4 to 14 metres. Peat stacking also follows local customs and a well-built peat stack can be a work of art.

  8. Estate houses in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...

  9. Crofting - Wikipedia

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    Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: croitearachd) is a form of land tenure [1] and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man. [2] Within the 19th-century townships , individual crofts were established on the better land, and a large area of poorer-quality hill ground was ...