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Field Visit
Date 14 July 2015
Event ID 1011534
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011534
ND 20476 98743 Early 19th century single storey bothy with adjoining lower projection to north east gable. The bothy has a heather thatched roof, with a continuous heather ridge. The thatch is netted and weighted with stones along the ridge, in a row along the centre of the thatch and secured to the eaves. There is a small amount of mossy vegetation growth across the surface of the thatch. Both the main building and the NE projection, which has a flagstone roof, are open publicly as a bothy. The notes of the listing description read ‘this long, low building displays two important and traditional roofing types peculiar to Orkney. The main block is heather thatched; the roof of the lower projection comprises large flagstones overlaying a timber frame. Reinstated by the Hoy Trust as a bothy for visitors’.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 14 July 2015, survey no.142
