View of steading from road, looking W
C 78257
Description View of steading from road, looking W
Date 8/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number C 78257
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 349563, SC 2595927
Scope and Content View of Stove Steading, Sanday, Orkney Now ruinous, Stove appeared on Murdoch Mackenzie's 1750 'Chart of the North-East coast of Orkney'. By 1834 the farm was the property of Lord Balfour who owned Shapinsay. In 1920 the farm was purchased by the Scottish Board of Agriculture and sold as lots. A fire in the 1970s caused serious damage and the steading is now largely disused. Prior to the 1920 sale, Stove was one of the largest farms on Orkney. The imposing farm buildings are probably the work of a tenant, James Young, who leased Stove in 1853. The Scottish Farm Buildings Survey, a partnership between the Royal Commission and National Museums of Scotland, seeks to compile records of those farm buildings of historic interest. Field survey, backed up by documentary research, began in 1993. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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