Monument record MHG6035 - Lusta (Westside)

NG25NE 16.20 2689 5620.

There are six buildings and an enclosure in a group at the head of a croft on the W of the public road through Lusta, where it bends towards the bridge over the Lusta Burn. Two of the buildings are depicted with roofs on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire, 1880, sheet xv) and one unroofed, now reduced to a robbed stance. The other three structures are outbuildings, one with a byre drain and blocked window, and none are depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (ibid). The main building, a gabled rectangular structure, occupies the front of the enclosure, and measures 14.6m from NNW to SSE by 4.5m transversely within mortar-bonded rubble walls 0.8m in thickness by 1.8m in height. It is divided into two compartments, lit by windows on the NE side, from which it is also entered, and there is a fireplace in the SE gable. There are indications in the varying thickness of the walls that it has been rebuilt.
(WAT90 692-696)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 21 November 1990.