Burwick, South Ronaldsay

This is a mid-19th century farmhouse, with possible late 18th-century ancillary buildings, located in South Ronaldsay. The farmhouse is a two-storey, five-bay rectangular range, with a single-storey lean-to projection to the south, forming an L-shaped plan. A wide U-shaped arrangement of ancillary buildings extends to the north of the farmhouse. This includes a single-storey and attic grain store with an external forestair to the south arm, a single-storey, three-bay byre with a lower byre section forming a central range, a single-storey byre range forming the north arm, and a further single-storey and attic byre to the east, situated across the road. A small rubble lean-to outhouse is located at the rear (west) of the farmhouse.

The farmhouse is harled with an eaves course, while the ancillary buildings are constructed of squared and coursed rubble, with quoins on the grain store. The principal, east, elevation of the farmhouse has a window at each floor in the central bay, a boarded door at ground level with a window above it in the bay to the right, windows at each floor in the bay to the extreme right, a boarded door at ground level to the left of the center, and a window at the first floor in the bay to the extreme left. The five-bay projection to the north has boarded doors in the second and fourth bays, with a window in each remaining bay. The rear (west) elevation has an irregular arrangement of windows. The north side elevation has a window at each floor in the bay offset to the left, with a gablehead stack above. A wide, boarded door leads to the lean-to projection on the right side.

The grain store has a forestair leading to a first-floor entrance at its gabled east end. The south elevation has a central door with a small window above, and two evenly spaced windows at ground level on the left. The north elevation has small windows at each floor in the central bay, and a wide doorway to the outer right. The central byre range features a three-bay byre to the left with a central boarded door, flanked by windows on the east elevation; a lower range to the right has irregular openings. The rear (west) elevation is blank, with a wide entrance to the north gable. The north byre range has irregular openings to the south range, a blank north range, and a boarded door offset to the left on the gable (east) end.

The farmhouse has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ancillary buildings have timber framed windows. The farmhouse has a modern grey slate roof with a stone ridge and corniced, harled gablehead stacks. The ancillary buildings, the projection to the farmhouse, and the roof are covered in traditional graded stone tiles, with stone ridges, and a corniced rubble stack to the west gable of the grain store.

Inside the farmhouse, original features include timber architraved doorways and skirting boards, a timber staircase, and exposed timber rafters and braces. The ancillary buildings contain timber hay racks along the west wall of the central byre range with flagstone stall dividers, a flagstone-lined central slurry channel, and exposed rafters and tie beams.