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Latitude: 59.2559 / 59°15'21"N
Longitude: -2.6083 / 2°36'29"W
OS Eastings: 365411
OS Northings: 1041201
OS Grid: HY654412
Mapcode National: GBR M4X8.HTF
Mapcode Global: XH8KT.CM73
Plus Code: 9CFV794R+9M
Entry Name: Marygarth Steading, Sanday
Listing Name: Sanday, Marygarth Manse with Ancillary Buildings Including Drying Kiln, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 14 December 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330247
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB54
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200330247
Location: Cross and Burness
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Cross And Burness
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Farmstead
Rear wing, circa 1866; front block 1880. 2-storey, 3-bay T-plan former manse. Squared and snecked dressed pink sandstone to front; harled secondary elevations; ashlar dressings. Stop-chamfered arrises.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay, regular fenestration. Door with bracketed stone canopy; bipartite windows at ground. Small cast-iron rooflight.
W ELEVATION: gable end of front block to S with single windows to 1st floor to left; broad 2-storey older wing set back to N.
E ELEVATION: gable end of front block to S with single windows to 1st floor to left; broad 2-storey older wing set back to N with single storey lean-to in re-entrant angle.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced gable at centre with windows to both floors at centre; window to single storey range to E .
Timber sash and case windows 4-pane windows; 12-pane and hoppers to rear. Ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts; ashlar coped apex stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR, not seen, 1995.
OUTBUILDINGS, INCLUDING DRYING KILN, FORMER COACH HOUSE: various single storey rubble buildings to N and E, with flagstone roofs; circular rubble drying kiln and detached former coach house to E.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: substantial coped rubble walls enclose immediate gardens and over 8 acres of glebe land; pair of square gatepiers with stepped coping to yard.
The building works of 1880 uncovered massive circular walls suggesting the existence of a broch on the site. A rotary quern was also discovered. The outbuildings and especially the drying kiln, are of particular interest, reflected in the Category B listing.
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