Orkney Islands

Late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations and additions.

A late 18th and 19th century farm on the west coast of Sanday. The central group of buildings includes a farmhouse, a detached double byre with turf and partially surviving straw thatched roofs and a long barn and stable range.

17th century.

Alan Stevenson, 1852. 8-stage with lantern, circular-plan tapered tower standing to E of single storey, 8-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical keepers' accommodation block.

Thomas Smith and Ezekiel Walker, 1798. Tall, circular-plan 2-stage tower with bracketed cornice below flagstone ball finial. Harl-pointed rubble. Window (blocked) at 1st stage to E; window at 2nd stage above.

Earlier 17th cent. Traditional. 2 1/2 storeys. Harled. Corbic-steps. Slated roof. Court on E. side with round- arch in N. wall dated 1633 in keystone; armorial panel over inscribed 'A.B./M.B. 1662'. Walled garden beyond Court.

Early 19th century core, enlarged, S Baikie, 1872, and T S Peace, 1905. 2-storey house with single storey additions and outbuildings in rambling plan. Tower in re-entrant angle, 1905.

1812; belltower, probably T S Peace, 1906. 4 x single bay, rectangular-plan, crowstepped-gabled church with square-plan, 3-stage, crenellated belltower to E gable and low vestry to W. Harled. Corbelled string course below crenellations to tower.

Rear wing, circa 1866; front block 1880. 2-storey, 3-bay T-plan former manse. Squared and snecked dressed pink sandstone to front; harled secondary elevations; ashlar dressings. Stop-chamfered arrises.