View of workers' cottages (Streetsetter) to NE of steading from W. Digital image of D 3406

Description View of workers' cottages (Streetsetter) to NE of steading from W. Digital image of D 3406

Date 10/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 739016

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3406

Scope and Content Workers' cottages to north-east of steading, Warsetter Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from west Warsetter is a well-preserved example of a characteristic 19th-century Orcadian steading which, until abandoned in the late 1980s, was well-maintained. At an altitude of some 60m above sea level, Warsetter is at the highest point of Sanday, one of the largest of the Orkney Islands. This shows four single-storeyed farm labourers' cottages at Warsetter. Although the steading was not abandoned until the late 1980s, the last of these dwellings was vacated in the 1970s by a man who had begun work on the farm as a lad in 1959. The two-roomed cottages each had outbuildings for coal, pigs, and a closet. Tractors began to appear in Orkney during the 1940s and 1950s. With the introduction of machinery, the number of horses dwindled and farm work became much less labour intensive leading to a drastic reduction in the number of workers needed to run a farm like Warsetter. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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