featuring people downsizing their homes,
and they do not come much smaller than this one, it
is known as the “Wee House” that sits on Loch Shin in the Highlands of
Scotland, as it happens it also has another name, Broons Hoose, as legend
goes: it was built on Loch Shin near Lairg in 1824 by poacher Jock Broon
who was gifted land by a local laird in return for being taught how to distil
whisky. Broon is said to have built the ‘wee hoose’ to mark his new status as a
landowner but died shortly afterwards when he shot himself in the foot while
out hunting, over the years it has been rebuilt twice due to damage by bad weather, and it still stands today, the BBC featured the house on the BBC Scotland programme, photograph Johannes Hulsch, whose travels you can follow here, OK time to fess up, the true story of the Wee House can be found here.
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