Ordale Steading including threshing mill, pigsty, lade and boundary walls, Baltasound, Unst

Earlier 19th century. U-plan steading comprising gabled single storey and attic stable, bothy and hayloft (to W), and former threshing mill (to E) linked by single storey byre and barn; single storey monopitch pigsty centred to S. Harl-pointed rubble walls.

S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical, 3 evenly-spaced vertically-boarded timber doors to barn and byre; door to left flanked by rectangular windows. Entrance door to mill with window to right in re-entrant angle with E range. Vertically-boarded timber door with altered opening to left in re-entrant angle with W range. Blank S gables to E and W ranges; monopitch timber-framed addition with rubble E wall to gable of E range.

E ELEVATION: 6-pane hoppered timber window to outer right; 6-spoke, single-ring cast-iron waterwheel with square axle adjacent to left with small square openings centred above at eaves.

N ELEVATION: near-symmetrical, square vertically-boarded timber sheaf and hay hatches in gableheads to outer left and right respectively, with additional hay hatch at ground to left in right gable. 4-bay link between gables with square muck-hatches (some now enlarged) in each bay.

Purple-grey slate roofs with cast-iron rooflights and timber ventilators at ridges. Rubble skew copes, single-flue gablehead stack to S gable of W range, coped with circular can.

INTERIOR: vertically-boarded timber partition dividing N and S ends of threshing mill. S end containing store at ground with grain loft above. Timber ladder accessing 1st floor and N end containing timber threshing machinery, cast-iron gearing inside E wall, with adjacent timber hopper to girnel at ground. Central link containing cow byre in E side; W side containing byre with stone flag floor and triangulated timber stalls; horizontally-boarded partition with 'stable' door to barn. W range containing hay loft at 1st floor to N, gig shed and stable to S with bothy at 1st floor accessed by open timber stair.

PIGSTY: random rubble walls with monopitch roof sloping to S; vertically-boarded timber doors centring N elevation to drystone-walled runs.

LADE: concrete mill lade from S partially surviving along E elevation.

BOUNDARY AND STACKYARD WALLS: drystone walls enclosing former farmyard to S, and stackyard to N.