Kennels, Hoy Lodge, Hoy

Original, pre-1880 S range incorporated in L-plan additions, William Lethaby, 1900, forming 2-storey, crowstepped-gabled, U-plan traditional Orkney laird's house with later additions to N and E. Harled.

S (ORIGINAL) RANGE: S ELEVATION: irregular, 5-bay. 2 windows to lean-to porch at ground in bay to left of centre; window in left return; door in right return. (Enlarged) 3-light window at ground in bay to outer left; window at 1st floor above. Irregularly disposed window at each floor in remaining bays to right. Gabled return to right: window at ground to left; window at 1st floor to right; gablehead stack above. gabled return to left: window at each floor to left; gablehead stack above.

W RANGE: W ELEVATION: irregular 6-bay with garden wall between 2nd and 3rd bays (from left). Window at ground in bay to centre; blank above. Window at each floor in bay to penultimate right; stair window to outer right (advanced 2-bay S range return to extreme right). Window at each floor in remaining bays to left. E (INTERNAL) ELEVATION: single storey, regularly fenestrated, 3-bay. N RANGE: S ELEVATION: regular, 3-bay. Window at each floor in each bay. N ELEVATION: regular 3-bay with 2-bay W range return to outer right. Window in each bay at 1st floor; lean-to with door in left return between centre and right bays. Single storey lean-to to E gable.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights to various pitches. Traditional graded stone tiled roof; stone ridge; harled corniced ridge and gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS: fine, extensive random rubble, battered garden walls bounding L-plan site with rounded corners and coping. Drum piers to S vehicular gateway with stepped caps; square piers to E vehicular gateway with pyramidal caps.

KENNELS: sited to NE corner of garden. Gabled, stone, 2-bay building with square-headed entrance in each bay to E; small opening to gablehead; wall to runs running S; dwarf walls to railings at S. Traditional graded stone tiled roof.