Building record 14519 - 6 Garenin, Carloway, Isle of Lewis

Structure 6:
This building is oriented soutwest-northeast and lies to the south of the main road. It si marked on the 1895 OS map in a similar configuration to the one seen today. The only noticeable change is the extension of the main structure at its north end, presumably at the time that the present gable was constructed.
It is likely that some time after 1895, the house was converted, with the extension of the house to the north, the building of the chimneyed gable and the construction of a wooden floor.
It measures 19.5m x 6.5m and consisted of a dwellling to the northeast and a byre to the soutwest, or down slope end of the structure. A barn was built on the east side and measures 10m x 4m externally.
The dwellling area measured 9m x 3.2m and was seperated from the byre by a stone faced, earth cored partition that in its final form had a hearth and flue built in. This and the northern end of the building are collapsed.
There is an internal division within the byre which was constructed in 1969, when the original apsidal end of the house collapsed. This shortened the byre from 7.3m to 2.5m.
The building originally had two entrances, both into the byre, one in the west wall and one in the east. The eastern entrance is now blocked. The barn also has later partitions and alterations.
Burgess 1995, 25-28

Excavations were carried out in 1998, to clarify the structure, and to inform the reconstruction of this building.
Burgess & Johnson 1998, 24-44

Christopher Burgess, 1995, Garenin Landscape Survey: interim report 1a 1994-1995 (Unpublished document).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

Christopher Burgess & Melanie Johnson, 1998, Excavations & Survey at Garenin, Isle of lewis, 1998 (Unpublished document). SWE41179.