View of stable from SE. Digtial image of C 78346

Description View of stable from SE. Digtial image of C 78346

Date 9/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 741229

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 78346

Scope and Content Stable, Seater Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south-east Seater is a disused 19th-century steading whose land is now part of the neighbouring farm of Newark. It was last used in the 1960s. All the buildings are of rubble masonry, the large detached threshing barn being of special note. This is the stable from the south-east showing the central door with flanking windows. From ground level to wall-head measures 2.1m and from ground level to roof ridge is 5.1m. This building, which stands on its own, could be a later stable building to replace the stable adjoining the byre. The opening of a regular steamer service with the mainland in 1836, coupled with the recovery of the British farming industry from about 1840 and the collapse of the kelp industry, heralded the main period of agricultural development in Orkney with a 75% increase in arable acreage between 1842 and 1860. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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