Sumardale

November 12, 2007

Sumerdale riverOur house is built around a timber frame which was supplied by SkyeHomes, a local company specialized in designing typical Highland homes. Besides a portfolio of off-the-shelve designs, they offer a bespoke design service. This means that they design your house to your specific requirements and charge a nominal fee for that. In exchange they retain the copyright of the design so they can reuse the design for other customers as well. They also added our design to their portfolio and called it the “Sumardale”.

Having a tradition of naming their designs after local places, we were curious about Sumardale. We know for sure that Sumardale is a river on Skye, close to the Gesto Bay area. According to people from SkyeHomes it also used to be a crofting community which was depopulated during the Highland clearances. We’re not really sure why SkyeHomes choose this name. Maybe they just thought it sounded right.

Nowadays, hints to a once existing crofter community - remnants of houses - are not clearly visible like they are for example in the Osdale area close to the MacLeod’s Tables (although there are overgrown boulders visible that could point to remnants of old houses, but that’s not our area of expertise, so any opinion here would be presumptuous). The river Sumardale is there and so is a single farm house in the distance…

Posted by roger | Filed Under Blog, History, Local 

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