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Tankerness House Museum, Broad Street, Kirkwall

A Category A Listed Building in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Tankerness House,Kirkwall, Orkney, rebuilt Groatie Hoose.

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This summerhouse was built by James Traill an Edinburgh Lawyer in the 1720's in his garden on another site along Bridge Street. This house was demolished after a fire in 1938 and the Groatie House was eventually rebuilt on this site in 2005. Traditionally built from ballast from a captured pirate ship captained by John Gow. Groatie is a local word for a shell which were used to decorate the spire.

Uploaded by Bryan Hickman
on 30 August 2013

Photo ID: 88299
Building ID: 200381521
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