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Latitude: 59.0634 / 59°3'48"N
Longitude: -3.2077 / 3°12'27"W
OS Eastings: 330844
OS Northings: 1020226
OS Grid: HY308202
Mapcode National: GBR L4FS.5BV
Mapcode Global: WH69H.PGR9
Plus Code: 9CFR3Q7R+8W
Entry Name: Holodyke
Listing Name: Holodyke
Listing Date: 1 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338393
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6706
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338393
Location: Birsay and Harray
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: West Mainland
Parish: Birsay And Harray
Traditional County: Orkney
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Asymmetrical house built in 4 main stages, mostly in 19th
century, rear wing by Sir Reginald Fairlie, 1919. 2-storey
centre gable and low right wing in existence by 1880,
right wing raised to full 2-storey height for Sir Thomas
Clouston 1889 (his initials picked out on roof slates);
1896 corresponding left wing (also for Clouston) with tall
square entrance tower in re-entrant angle, these both
crow-stepped, as is Fairlie's parallel wing behind. Harled
(rubble-faced on early views); sash windows; slate roofs;
some first floor windows break through eaves, projecting
chimney breast on left gable. Outbuildings to rear.
Used as a shooting lodge until 1958; there is said to have been
a school at Holodyke in the 18th century, which may form
part of the present house.
Sir Thomas Clouston acquired Holodyke from his brother in
in 1880; the former was a psychiatrist at the Morningside
Asylum, Edinburgh, and some of the building materials of
of Holodyke (eg the oak hall floor) are said to have come
from the same source. 1919 additions for Clouston's
daughter and her husband, Sir David Wallace; the builder
was Willie Firth from Harray.
Arthur Melville, artist, spent time here. Used by the RAF
as officers' mess during last war. Tower contains water
tank in a gas engine originally pumped the water in to
the tank.
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