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Eday, Noup Hill
Fishing Lodge (19th Century), Kelp Store (19th Century)
Site Name Eday, Noup Hill
Classification Fishing Lodge (19th Century), Kelp Store (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Carrick House
Canmore ID 3168
Site Number HY53NE 33
NGR HY 5670 3961
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3168
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Eday
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY53NE 33 5670 3961.
A two-storey building aligned approximately N-S, with crow-stepped gables. It has been heightened. It measures 5.35 by 3.95m overall, with walls 0.65m thick, the stones set in clay but rendered inside and out with shelly lime mortar.
The doorway, 0.95m wide and 1.70m high, is near the W end of the S wall; in this wall beside it is a ground floor fireplace. Near the S end of the E wall is a single-splay recess with a small window, with slots for frame, the opening 0.3m wide and 0.6m high.
The joist holes for the upper floor give barely 1.5m headroom above present ground floor level which is that of the sill of the doorway.
The upper floor has a fireplace in the N end-wall, this fireplace seems to have existed before the wall was heightened. The only window at this level is a tiny one 0.4m square near the N end of the W wall; in the E wall directly opposite is a matching aumbry. The window has been blocked, opening into a later extension built as lean-to against the W wall; it is the same length as the building and 3.2m wide, entered by a S doorway 1.1m wide and 1.85m high. The original building was about 3.1m high to the eaves and 4.2 to the ridge.
Visited by R G Lamb, September 1982
On the flat backshore at the foot of the precipitous hillside just over 1km N of Carrick House is a two-storey building 5.35m N-S by 3.95m overall, with walls 0.65m thick, constructed of stones set in clay and rendered on both sides with a shelly lime plaster. The upper floor has been raised in height and has crow-stepped gables; there are fireplaces at both levels. A lean-to-extension has been built on the W side. The building is variously stated to have been a fishing-lodge and a kelp store; it has probably served both purposes.
RCAHMS 1984.
