Tiree House

Greenhill, Isle of Tiree

Concept/theme	Interpretation	Discourse
Rough foreground, reeds, flowers	Machair landscape	Rurality
Sea (background)	Close to sea	location
Tarmac road	Cars in use	Modernity
Gates and hedging	Garden	Private/public
size	Family home	Sociality
Snow semmed walls	Maintained	Ownership
Stains on walls	Weathered	Climate/age
Moss on roof	Not regularly maintained	Neglect
Chimneys	Fires in house	Modernity?
Storm windows	Rough weather	climate

Greenhill, Isle of Tiree

• Concept/theme	Interpretation	Discourse
  Car	Occupation	Ownership
  Hedge and grass	Well maintained	Ownership

Greenhill, Isle of Tiree

• Concept/theme	Interpretation	Discourse
  Porch door	Entrance	Human occupation
  Discoloured extension	Affected by elements more, prominent	climate

Greenhill, Isle of Tiree

Black House Villiage, Garenin, Isle of Lewis

several houses - community

sea - coastal loacation

Stone walls & thatched roof - Black house

Black house - history, old, the past

Modern double glazed window - refurbished? in use?

Grass & moss on roof - natural

chimney -fires inside

stone work - un even shaped stones cleverly assembled to make building

Lewis Houses

Unused island house decorated for 'Katie Morag' production set, Tolsta Chaolais, Isle of Lewis

• Isle of Struay sign - location is Isle of Struay (FYI it's a  fictional island)
• Post office signs and letter box on wall - building is a post office
• green paint - slightly eccentric owners?? building designed to be eye catching
• Snow sem - looked after
• gravel path lined with stones - well maintained
• storm windows - rough weather
• slates roof - not exceptionally old, roof maintained well
• figures in doorway - some significance of the building to the figures, souvenir??
• figures wearing coats - cool climate
• lace curtains - old fashioned homeliness

Iron age Broch, Doune, Carloway, Isle of Lewis

• curvature of the stones - round shaped building
• large sections missing - no longer a dwelling place
• neat rows of bricks used to build - intelligent constructors
• low openings - lived in by small folk?
• figures in middle opening - easily accessible to get too
• figures small and hard to make out - scale of structure is large

Tiree Houses

Balemartine, Isle of Tiree

• Greenery and fields - rural setting
• telegraph pole - modern connection
• long unkept road - remote not highly populated setting
• clouded sky - mild climate

Balemartine, Isle of Tiree

• white snow semed house - cared for, no left to rot
• car in front of house - currently occupied
• Old fashioned angular windows - suggest age
• Black roof - suggests tar, age
• velux windows of other house - modern

Braehill, Balemartine, Isle of Tiree

• Chimneys - Coal fire in house?
• front porch - extension, moderisation?
• pram behind car - child/ren present
• blue sky and sun haze - good weather
• over growth in garden area - garden not maintained
• attached building no roof - derelict, no upkeep
• car - family car
• storm windows - rough weather?