View of gate with arch and bell from W. Digital image of C 78236

Description View of gate with arch and bell from W. Digital image of C 78236

Date 8/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738980

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 78236

Scope and Content Entrance gateway, Tresness Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from west Tresness is a 19th-century steading on Sanday, one of the largest of the Orkney Islands and some 38.6km north-east of Kirkwall. Sanday has fertile soils derived from flagstones of the Old Red Sandstone age. Tresness, a mixed arable and livestock farm, ceased to be a working farm in the 1950s. This shows the arched entrance gateway into the walled garden at Tresness. The high stone wall, offering shelter on this almost treeless island, is mostly formed out of the buildings and farm offices of the steading complex. These include a turnip shed, grain drying kiln, byre, fuel store and the farmhouse. When agricultural improvement took hold in Orkney in the mid-19th century, new steadings began to be built to meet the needs of a more mechanised farming industry. Datestones are unusual on Sanday but at Tresness there is a fireclay ridge on the gable end of the stable bearing the date 1885. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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