Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?

[anabanana]

What's left of the threshing mill (the wheel is sort of visible to the side in the pic), has corrugated iron on it...but I agree the lean to looks like a wooden roof

[Geoff-E]

A whole book on corrugated iron buildings how wonderful

Sorry to go further off topic, but I drove past this one this morning http://tinyurl.com/67nqocz

[youngtug]

A lot of croft houses had corrugated iron roofs, noisy you would think.  http://www.wreckoftheweek.co.uk/2011/02/croft-house-earlish-isle-of-skye.html

[youngtug]

How about a new one; http://www.hebrideancrofthouses.co.uk/

[JustLooking]

Could I just add that I lived in a corrugated roofed croft house like that in Ross-shire on and off from 1984 to 1993.

Very few wooden roofs in the Highlands - too wet!

My guess is 1940s-1950s by the style of the 2 storey house.


JL

PS - very noisy when it rained which was often 

[PrueM]

Very hard to say what the date would be 

From the colour of the photo it has been printed out, rather than developed, so I'm guesstimating that it's pre-1930, and probably after 1910 if it's a postcard format (which it looks to be).  BIG guesstimate, though.

Cheers
Prue

[JustLooking]

Just remembered that there was quite a spate of building the 2 storey houses with the dormer windows in the Highlands  around 1921- ish.


Would that fit ?



JL

PS - usually the bigger houses were  the school house and manse before then

[Skoosh]

Ana, I would say the house could date as early as the 1880s but has had sunshine windows fiitted later in the dormers. This is near the sea? the triangular rack by the door is for drying fish.  The houses usually face south for the light, with the kitchen to the left with a stone floor and the living/bed room with a wooden floor, to the right.  Skoosh.

[janan]

I think the wire running along the top of the wall is barbed - looking at the history (and there is a surprising amount) it was invented in America and was common there by the 1890's. I can't find when it came to Europe other than its use in WW1. I would guess it wouldn't have been used in the Highlands till after then??

Jan