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Sandside
Lairds House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sandside
Classification Lairds House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 2949
Site Number HY50NE 34
NGR HY 5914 0698
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2949
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY50NE 34 5914 0698.
An oblong enclosure adjoining the modern farmhouse of Sandside includes the ruins of the 17th century house of the Buchanans of Sandside with its service buildings, which between them occupy the N and S sides. A skew-put with the date '1678', now lying loose, came from the NW angle of the enclosure.
G Low 1879; RCAHMS 1946
There was a substantial laird's house on the site of Sandside farm steading; it was already in ruins by 1774, when Low saw a chimney-piece the inscription, 'who can dwell with everlasting burnings'. A fragment suggest a high-quality house of late sixteenth-or-early seventeenth-century date. The owner, Mr J R Foubister, Skaill, has uncovered substantial foundations of earlier buildings in the farmyard. The coastline to the S of the farm is eroding, but only a tumble of stones is at present exposed.
G Low 1879; RCAHMS 1946; K A Steedman 1980; RCAHMS 1987.
