Saville, Sanday is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Farmhouse.
Saville, Sanday
- WRENN ID
- outer-fireplace-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Late 18th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical T-plan, crowstepped-gabled house with single storey, lean-to entrance porch to principal (E) elevation and similar porch to SW internal angle at rear. Harl-pointed random rubble with painted cement margins to E. Ancillary buildings forming small courtyard to rear (W) of main farmhouse; rectangular-plan gabled threshing barn to W, disposed N/S with single storey link to main house and single storey, 3-bay store at right angles to W; rectangular-plan store/barn disposed E/W to N with further lean-to shed to W end. Harl-pointed random rubble. Rubble wall enclosing large rectangular-plan garden to S; rectangular-plan, lean-to shed to SW angle.
FARMHOUSE: E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: boarded door with window in each bay flanking to 3-bay lean-to porch at ground in bay to centre; window in each return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at 1st floor and attic, offset to right, in gabled bay to left; gablehead stack above; window at ground and 1st floor in bay set back to right.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor, offset to left, in gabled bay to right; gablehead stack above. Window at ground in bay set back to left.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey link to barn at ground to advanced bay to centre; attic window, offset to left above; gablehead stack. Modern, part-glazed timber panelled door with window flanking to left in lean-to porch at ground in bay to left. Blank bay to right.
Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights. Traditional graded stone tiled roof; replaced stone tiled roof to entrance porch; corrugated-iron roof to rear porch; stone ridges and skews; corniced rubble gablehead stacks to N, S and W; cast-ion and uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
ANCILLARY BUILDINGS: later 19th to earlier 20th century. Corrugated-iron, asbestos and fish-scale tiled roofs; stone skews; boarded doors; timber-framed windows. INTERIORS: timber threshing machinery extant in threshing barn. Unseen elsewhere.
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