Sanday, Marygarth Manse with Ancillary Buildings Cross and Burness, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Sanday, Marygarth Manse with Ancillary Buildings has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330247 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 54
- Canmore ID
- 116782
- Category
- B
- Name
- Sanday, Marygarth Manse with Ancillary Buildings Including Drying Kiln, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
- Parish
- Cross and Burness
- County
- Orkney Islands
- Easting
- 365411
- Northing
- 1041201
- Date Listed
- 14 December 1995
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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. S (FRONT) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay, regular fenestration. Door with bracketed stone canopy; bipartite windows at ground. Small cast-iron rooflight. W ELEVATION: gable end of front block to S with single windows to 1st floor to left; broad 2-storey older wing set back to N. E ELEVATION: gable end of front block to S with single windows to 1st floor to left; broad 2-storey older wing set back to N with single storey lean-to in re-entrant angle. N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced gable at centre with windows to both floors at centre; window to single storey range to E . Timber sash and case windows 4-pane windows; 12-pane and hoppers to rear. Ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts; ashlar coped apex stacks; grey slates. INTERIOR, not seen, 1995. OUTBUILDINGS, INCLUDING DRYING KILN, FORMER COACH HOUSE: various single storey rubble buildings to N and E, with flagstone roofs; circular rubble drying kiln and detached former coach house to E. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: substantial coped rubble walls enclose immediate gardens and over 8 acres of glebe land; pair of square gatepiers with stepped coping to yard.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The building works of 1880 uncovered massive circular walls suggesting the existence of a broch on the site. A rotary quern was also discovered. The outbuildings and especially the drying kiln, are of particular interest, reflected in the Category B listing.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, (1881), evident; THE ORCADIAN (29th may, 1880); THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND MONUMENTS OF SANDAY AND NORTH RONALDSAY, Orkney Heritage Society; RCAHMS (1980).
