1-2 Port Wemyss

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Buildings 1–2 Port Wemyss can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture.

There are two residential buildings at the address 1–2 Port Wemyss in the Scottish town of Port Wemyss on the Hebridean island of Islay . The buildings in the center of the village were listed as an ensemble in the British list of monuments in category B on July 20, 1971 . The house names are occasionally used to specify the buildings . They start in the south: Mckinnon (No. 1) and Thomson (No. 2).

description

The two buildings were built using a closed construction method directly on the road that leads north past the school to the A847. They date from the 1830s when Walter Frederick Campbell , the Laird of Islay, created Port Wemyss as a new planned settlement. The exact construction date is not known. The buildings are traditionally built. Both have two floors and are finished with gable roofs . While the roof of house number 2 is traditionally covered with slate shingles, house number 1 is made of asbestos shingles. The buildings have different gable heights, with house number 2 being higher. The entrance doors are located in the middle of the fronts and are symmetrically surrounded by five lattice windows. The facades are plastered using the traditional Harling technique.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Entry on 1 Port Wemyss  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ Entry on 2 Port Wemyss  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 35.5 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 17.9"  W.