St Mary's Village, The Corn Store Holm, Scotland
Listed Building Data
St Mary's Village, The Corn Store 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 345620 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 12727
- Canmore ID
- 153154
- Category
- B
- Name
- St Mary's Village, the Corn Store
- Parish
- Holm
- County
- Orkney Islands
- Easting
- 347723
- Northing
- 1001336
- Date Listed
- 16 September 1999
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
- 2-storey and attic, 4-bay rectangular-plan, near-symmetrical storehouse/granary, with crowstepped gables to steeply pitched roof and forestair to W gable, sited by the shore. Harl-pointed random rubble with squared rubble dressings. Long and short margins to openings; long and short quoins. S (SHORESIDE) ELEVATION: window at ground in bay offset to right of centre; window (blocked) at 1st floor above. Boarded door at ground in bay to outer right; window (blocked) at 1st floor above. Window at ground in bay offset to left of centre; boarded door at 1st floor above. Window at ground in bay to outer left; window (blocked) at 1st floor above. N (ROADSIDE) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated 2-bay elevation. Window at each floor (blocked) in bay to centre. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: forestair from N elevation to boarded door, offset to right of centre; small window to gable above. Boarded door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to outer right. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay, offset to left of centre. Window (blocked) at ground; window at 1st floor; small window to gable; gablehead stack above. Most windows boarded; timber framed remainders. Grey slate to upper half of roof; graded Caithness stone tiles to lower half; stone ridge. Truncated squared rubble, corniced gablehead stack to E. INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
A well preserved 'girnel' (granary or storehouse) belonging to the Meil Estate, subsequently called the Graemeshall Estate. Its steeply pitched roof is a noteworthy anomaly to the other roof types in St Mary's village, and indicates an early date of construction.Also known as 'Auld Store'.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Appears on 1st edition OS map (1882); Kirkwall Archive, Miscellaneous Vol I/28 (1977); J Hume, THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL II, (1977) p 245; L Burgher, ORKNEY, AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1991), p 33; A Ritchie, ORKNEY (1996) p 28.
