Threshing Barn, Glen, Rackwick

Two parallel rectangular-plan, single-storey, rubble-built threshing barns of mid-19th century construction, located to the immediate west of Glen (house and former farmstead), Rackwick, Hoy, Orkney.

The slightly larger barn to the south has a small opening (winnowing door) set at the ground level to the south elevation. The north elevation has a doorway with a boarded timber door. The roof is heather thatched with a turf under-lay and is secured with wire and weight-stones. There are projecting flagstones at the wallhead eaves.

The smaller barn to the north is of similar construction. Its former turf and heather over flagstone roof covering was replaced with metal sheeting in 2016. The flagstones are propped against the side of the building. The doorway is in the south side, facing the door of the larger barn.

There is a flagstone-floored closs (narrow passage) between the two barns. The interior of the larger barn (seen 2019) is a single space containing a 19th or early 20th century threshing machine of timber construction.