Boloquoy Mill, Sanday

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/12/1971 Last Date Amended 24/09/2019 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Cross And Burness NGR HY 62593 39061 Coordinates 362593, 1039061 — A late 18th and 19th century farm on the west coast of Sanday. The central group of buildings includes a farmhouse, a detached double byre with turf and partially surviving straw thatched roofs and a long barn and stable range. To the west, there is a grain mill with a cast iron water wheel and internal milling machinery. To the east, there are two cottages at Little Boloquoy. To the south, there is a byre/barn range at Setter. The buildings are all of drystone rubble construction. They are in an open landscape of regular fields, bounded with drystone dykes, and there is a mill-pond to the south, and partially-surviving mill-lade. The farmhouse (at HY 62727 39101) is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan house with an advanced, gabled porch to the south front. There is a single storey addition to the east gable with a boarded door. The windows are mostly nine-pane timber sash and case windows with top-hung upper lights. The building has a dashed render and a purple slate roof with a stone ridge, stone skews, and corniced chimney stacks on the east and west gables. The rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron. To the south, there are drystone rubble garden boundary walls with rubble coping stones and square-plan gatepiers with flagstone caps. The byre (at HY 62753 39107) is to the immediate south of the farmhouse with a flagstone passage (or closs) between the two buildings. The byre has been extended with an extra stall added to the east end. Each stall has a two-leaf boarded door. The east gable has rounded corners. There is a turf thatched roof on the east stall,

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.