Marygarth Steading, Sanday

Marygarth Steading is a former manse with a rear wing built around 1866 and a front block added in 1880. It is a two-storey, three-bay T-plan structure made of squared and snecked dressed pink sandstone at the front, with harled secondary elevations and ashlar dressings. The building features stop-chamfered arrises.

The south (front) elevation is symmetrical with three bays and regular window placement. It has a door with a bracketed stone canopy and bipartite windows on the ground floor, along with a small cast-iron rooflight.

The west elevation shows the gable end of the front block to the south, featuring a single window on the first floor to the left, while a broad two-storey older wing is set back to the north.

The east elevation mirrors the west, with the gable end of the front block to the south and a single window on the first floor to the left. The broad two-storey older wing is set back to the north and includes a single-storey lean-to in the re-entrant angle.

The north (rear) elevation has an advanced gable at the center with windows on both floors, and a window to a single-storey range to the east. The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with 4-pane windows, 12-pane windows, and hoppers at the rear. The building has ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts, ashlar coped apex stacks, and is roofed with grey slates.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.

There are outbuildings, including a drying kiln and a former coach house, which consist of various single-storey rubble buildings to the north and east, with flagstone roofs, a circular rubble drying kiln, and a detached former coach house to the east.

The property is enclosed by substantial coped rubble boundary walls that surround the immediate gardens and over 8 acres of glebe land. There are also a pair of square gatepiers with stepped coping leading to the yard.