Steading, Breck Of Rendall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 December 1980.
Steading, Breck Of Rendall
- WRENN ID
- quartered-glass-foxglove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 December 1980
- OS grid reference
- HY 417 206
- Coordinates
- 59.06922, -3.01744
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The southwest wing of Breck of Rendall Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the second half of the 18th century, with a mid-19th century U-plan steading. The structure is made of rubble. The farmhouse has two storeys and a dormerless attic, featuring three wide bays. There is a lower two-bay, two-storey wing to the west, which has a door on the south front at first floor level, accessed by steps. To the east, there is a single-storey byre that is now in ruins.
On the north elevation, there is an off-centre door with an additional door to the left and one window to the right. The first floor has two windows, all with 18-pane glazing, along with a small stair light. The south elevation includes a projecting lean-to porch and one window to the left, with one window in each crow-stepped gable end. The farmhouse features gable head stacks and a slate roof.
The steading consists of two long, parallel ranges with a crow wing to the south and a low building at the north. The long ranges are single storey with lofts, and the western range has five elliptical-headed cart bays. The roofs are slate, except for the east range, which is now covered with corrugated iron.
Local climate
Steading, Breck Of Rendall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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