Building record 14514 - 3 Garenin, Carloway, Isle of Lewis

Structure 3b:
Does not appear on the 1895 Ordnance Survey map.
… in its state of abandonment (was) a two roomed building, with a large dwelling area to the east measuring 8m x 4.5m internally. This dwellling area is separated from a small byre measuring 2m x 4.5m, by a stone and mortar partition wall. It is unclear whether this partition wall is contemporary with the original construction phase of the house.
The dwelling area of the house has two fireplaces, one in the east gable and one in the partition wall. The chimney stack at the partition has been deliberately demolished. … It can be clearly seen in the west elevation that the end wall of the structure was regularly dismantled for the removal of manure from the byre at the end of the winter.
The south facing elevation shows that the western end was deliberatley built with a view to preventing the collapse of the wall. This wall carried the greatest weight of all the walls… it is batterd to an angle of 10 degrees from the vertical, and has a buttress 1m high, up to 0.5m thick.
The entrance is in the south wall directly opposite the partition between the dwelling and the byre. A window, also south facing, has been built near the east end of the dwelling, and while again it is unclera whether this is original, it seems likely given the relatively late date of construction of the building.
The roof has been largley removed except for one roof frame propped agains the exterior norther wall, but the detail of the stone work on the inner wall head has survived, showing not only that the inner head was higher than the external, but that it was capped with large flat stones set at an angle up into the interior of the house.
Burgess 1995, 10-14

Christopher Burgess, 1995, Garenin Landscape Survey: interim report 1a 1994-1995 (Unpublished document). SWE41175.