View of farmhouse from SE. Digital image of D 3516 CN

Description View of farmhouse from SE. Digital image of D 3516 CN

Date 13/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738479

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3516 CN

Scope and Content Farmhouse, Boloquoy Steading, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south-east This early to mid-19th-century farm complex with its meal mill and parallel byre range are significant survivors of a working farm. In 1996 when this photograph was taken, Boloquoy housed the last working, oil-powered threshing machine on Sanday. This shows the farmhouse from the south-east, showing the porch and, to the right, the extension which includes a store and workshop. This store/workshop is single-storeyed with rubble masonry, rendered walls and a corrugated cement asbestos sheet roof. It was widened and remodelled in 1962 and was a barn with a drying kiln as well as being used as a store for animal feed. Sanday comes from Old Norse and means 'sandy island'. It is about 20km long and 11km wide, with its highest point, The Wart, being only 65m above sea level. The underlying geology of the flat eastern part of the island is Rousay flagstone and that of the slightly hilly western part is Eday sandstone. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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