Listed Building: Garrynamonie (4296)

379 Garrynamonie is a single-storey, Hebridean-type, thatched cottage with two rubble outbuildings, all likely dating to the mid-19th century with later alterations. 379 Garrynamonie is located at the far western end of the township of Garrynamonie, which is located on the southwest coast of South Uist between Loch an Eilean and Loch Fada. The thick walls of the cottage are harl-pointed rubble with rounded corners. The windows openings are small and deeply recessed. The front elevation faces east and is three bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by windows. The entrance has a later lean-to porch, which is harled and has a corrugated iron roof. There is a window opening to each side of the porch. The rear (west) elevation has one small, central window opening. The end walls have no openings and each has a later chimneystack, built in rubble and with short pots. The windows have timber sash and case frames. Those to the front have a four-pane glazing pattern. The piended roof is thatched in marram grass in the Uist style with the thatch sitting on the outer wall and the thatch going over the edge. It has a continuous thatched marram ridge. The entire roof has been netted and is weighted along the eaves and around the chimney stacks with stones tied to the netting with wire. In addition, small metal tubes secure the thatch further around the stacks. There is some missing thatch at the rear of the roof exposing the roof timbers and interior of the cottage. Two outbuildings stand to the northeast of the cottage. That nearest the cottage is probably a byre and has a small henhouse attached to the north elevation. It is gabled and harled, and has a corrugated iron roof with a rooflight. It has an off-centre door and two small windows in the east elevation. The smaller square outbuilding has rubble walls and a central door. It is unroofed (2015).