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Latitude: 59.2307 / 59°13'50"N
Longitude: -2.7608 / 2°45'38"W
OS Eastings: 356682
OS Northings: 1038482
OS Grid: HY566384
Mapcode National: GBR M4KB.D0K
Mapcode Global: XH8KY.C7CX
Plus Code: 9CFV66JQ+7M
Entry Name: Carrick House, Eday
Listing Name: Carrick House
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 336876
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5438
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200336876
Location: Eday
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Eday
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier 17th cent. Traditional. 2 1/2 storeys. Harled.
Corbic-steps. Slated roof. Court on E. side with round-
arch in N. wall dated 1633 in keystone; armorial panel
over inscribed 'A.B./M.B. 1662'. Walled garden beyond
Court.
Several additions and offices at S. end of house.
Built for John Stewart, 1st Earl of Carrick, when he
acquired Eday.
Passed later to Buchanans of Sound (Shapinsay) and Sandside
(Deerness) and through marriage 1720 to Feas of Clestrain
(Stronsay). John Gow, the pirate was confined here Feb.
1725. Passed in 1770 to Robert Laing of Pabdale (Kirkwall)
and in 1854 to Robert James Hebden in whose family it
remains.
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