1.11 Croft House Addresses

General

• When only the croft house is being registered and the property has been de-crofted with a decrofting directive, and the address is in the gazetteer, then the gazetteer address should be used. There is no need to reflect the croft in the property section as the property being registered has been de-crofted.
• When the property being registered is a croft, and there is a croft house site within the larger croft property, it is acceptable to use the postal address of the croft house (if one exists in the gazetteer) in the address fields. There is no need to refer to the croft in the address in the property section.
• When the property being registered is a croft or croft house that does not have a postal address in the gazetteer, see Section 2.10 - Crofts for guidance.

Townships

In crofting townships, the postal address of the property may refer to the township name in the address, narrated in either the DIR or on the application for registration form. This is not usually classed as a locality in the Royal Mail Gazetteer, but is classed as a sub-locality. As the RoS gazetteer does not currently support the sub-locality field, the gazetteer address may not reflect this. The Royal Mail does however narrate township names in postal addresses, and in many cases in crofting areas, the postal address will be the township, locality and post town.

If registering a property where the crofting township is in the property description and this varies from the RoS gazetteer address, then check the Royal Mail's gazetteer. If the royal mail address includes the crofting township then delete the RoS gazetteer and manually enter the address, typing the township into the thoroughfare field. A title note should be added to the application workdesk on the LRS to explain why the RoS gazetteer address has not been accepted.