Scar Steading: General view of house and steading from S. Digital image of D 17550 CN
SC 738835
Description Scar Steading: General view of house and steading from S. Digital image of D 17550 CN
Date 5/7/1997
Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey
Catalogue Number SC 738835
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 17550 CN
Scope and Content Scar Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south Scar Farm is on Sanday, one of the islands of the Orkney group. Sanday is some 38.6km from the town of Kirkwall on mainland Orkney. Sanday is low-lying and almost treeless with fertile soils and a climate favourable to the island's agricultural economy. This shows the house, a B-listed building, which is part of a large, U-shaped complex of farm buildings. It has a slated roof with dormer windows. The single-storeyed building attached on the right contains one large room, known as the 'Billiard Room'. It has a corrugated sheet metal roof and is wood lined inside. The house at Scar was referred to as a mansion house in the first half of the 19th century. It was owned by Thomas Traill of Westover, one of the four major landowners on Sanday at that time. Robert Scarth, a factor, lived in the house and wrote an account of the parish for the minister, Reverend William Grant. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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