Scar Steading: View of main three-storey block of house from S. Digital image of D 3347 CN
SC 738837
Description Scar Steading: View of main three-storey block of house from S. Digital image of D 3347 CN
Date 10/8/1996
Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey
Catalogue Number SC 738837
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 3347 CN
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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