Scar Steading: View of main three-storeyed block of house from S
D 3347 CN
Description Scar Steading: View of main three-storeyed block of house from S
Date 10/8/1996
Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey
Catalogue Number D 3347 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 738837
Scope and Content Farmhouse, Scar Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south Scar steading is on Sanday, one of the islands of the Orkney group. Sanday, which lies some 38.6km north-east of the town of Kirkwall on mainland Orkney, is low-lying and almost treeless. Sanday has fertile soils and a temperate climate favourable to the island's agricultural economy. This shows the B-listed farmhouse in 1996 when it had fallen into a state of disrepair. The house has a slated roof while the buildings on either side have roofs made of corrugated sheet metal. The ground floor of the building on the left has been used as a workshop. It has an outside stair to the second floor. Referred to as a mansion house in the first half of the 19th century, the house was owned by Thomas Traill of Westover. The Traills were a well-known Orkney family of merchant lairds whose status and wealth, as large local landowners, was reflected in the size and former grandeur of this farmhouse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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