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Black house, Colbost Folk Museum, Skye, Highland, Scotland. A black house is a traditional Hebridean dwelling, consisting of a double dry stone wall packed with earth for insulation and a roof of turf or reed thatch on top of wooden rafters. There was no chimney and smoke from the hearth would have to seep out through the roof. The dwellings were usually partitioned with the human occupants living in one end and their livestock in the other. Similar houses were used elsewhere in the Scottish Highlands and in Ireland.
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AR9403096
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Purpose
Public
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5120px × 3413px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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Architecture
black house
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
color
concept
Construction
country
croft
dry stone wall
Exterior
Farm
Gaelic
Hebridean
hebrides
highland
House
HOUSING
inner hebrides
LOCATION
MUSEUM
PETER
Peter Thompson
Photograph
PTM
Roof
Scotland
SCOTS
Scottish
skye
Spectrum1
Stone
TGN
THATCHED
Thompson
traditional
TYPICAL
Wall