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Field Visit
Date August 1979
Event ID 1145888
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1145888
Tofts HY 3731 3257 HY33SE
The house of Tofts is the centrepiece of the cleared tunship of Ouandal, but it was perhaps once a tunship in itself; it is documented back to 1601 and has been claimed to be the oldest two-storeyed house in Orkney. The building, which has crow-stepped gables and double-splayed windows fitted for glass, is ruinous and it is structurally giving cause for concern.
RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1979
(Clouston 1924, 11-14; Harris, undated; Thomson 1981, 43-7; OR 485)
