Threshing Barn, Glen, Rackwick is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 September 2021. Barn.
Threshing Barn, Glen, Rackwick
- WRENN ID
- graven-lancet-bistre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 September 2021
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ND 200 997
- Coordinates
- 58.87751, -3.38904
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Threshing Barns at Glen, Rackwick, are two parallel, single-storey barns built from rubble in the mid-19th century. They are situated immediately west of Glen, which is a house and former farmstead in Rackwick, Hoy, Orkney.
The larger barn to the south features a small opening known as a winnowing door on its south elevation, while the north elevation has a doorway with a boarded timber door. The roof is thatched with heather and has a turf under-layer, secured with wire and weight-stones. The eaves are finished with projecting flagstones.
The smaller barn to the north shares a similar construction style. Its original turf and heather roof covering over flagstones was replaced with metal sheeting in 2016, and the flagstones are now propped against the side of the building. The doorway is located on the south side, directly facing the larger barn's door.
Between the two barns, there is a narrow passage, or closs, that has a flagstone floor. Inside the larger barn, as observed in 2019, there is a single space that contains a timber threshing machine dating from the 19th or early 20th century.
Local climate
Threshing Barn, Glen, Rackwick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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