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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643141
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643141
HY20NW 5 22464 09330.
(HY 2246 0932) Breckness House (NR) (in Ruins)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
Breckness House was built by the Bishop of Orkney in 1633. The remains stand two storeys high. The main block lies E and W and measures 22 ft 6 ins by 41 ft 6 ins externally. A wing projects 26 ft 6 ins N. at the E. end and is 23 ft 9 ins broad. To the S of the building there has been an enclosure probably a garden.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1795; D McGibbon and T Ross 1892; RCAHMS 1946, visited 6 August 1929.
Breckness House is as described above. Modern farm steadings have been built on to the west side of the north wing.
Photo OS
Visited by OS (RD) 16 September 1964.
Scheduled with chapel and burial-ground (HY 2246 0929), for which see HY20NW 6.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 December 2000.
