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Latitude: 59.2635 / 59°15'48"N
Longitude: -2.58 / 2°34'47"W
OS Eastings: 367033
OS Northings: 1042027
OS Grid: HY670420
Mapcode National: GBR M4Z7.YL7
Mapcode Global: XH8KT.QFN9
Plus Code: 9CFV7C7C+92
Entry Name: Quivals Farmhouse, Sanday
Listing Name: Sanday, Quivals Farmhouse, (Former School), Including Boundary Wall and Ancillary Buildings
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 337417
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5910
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Sanday, Quivals Farmhouse
ID on this website: 200337417
Location: Cross and Burness
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Cross And Burness
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Farmhouse
Possibly 18th century with alter alterations and additions. 2-storey , 5-bay, asymmetrical, long, rectangular-plan crowstepped-gabled house, (former school)with single storey, single bay projection to W. Harled. Smaller 1st floor windows set close under eaves. L-plan, coursed rubble byre ranges to E; later harled, rectangular-plan garage/barn to E.
HOUSE: S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window at ground in bay to centre. Boarded door with small-pane fanlight to gabled porch at ground in bay to right of centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer right. Boarded door to lean-to addition slightly recessed to E. Boarded door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to left of centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. Window in flat-roofed porch to single storey projection to W; boarded door to right return.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 4, irregularly disposed windows at ground; central window at 1st floor above.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: lean-to projection at ground; blank above; gablehead stack.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled projection at ground; blank above; gablehead stack.
4-, 12-, and 24-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights. Graded traditional stone tiled roof; stone tiles to porch and to projections; stone ridges; corniced, harled gablehead stacks to E and W; stone skews; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BARN RANGES: single storey L-plan byres with equal arms; irregularly disposed boarded doors and timber-framed windows to internal elevations. Graded traditional stone tile door; stone ridge; stone skews. INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS; low rubble wall to S elevation, extending to left of main porch; rubble wall to rear of main house enclosing large, rectangular-plan garden.
Formerly used as a schoolhouse, Quivals is also noted as having housed one of the island's regional Post Offices. With notably small windows at the 1st floor, the building retains its crowstepped gables and traditionally graded stone tiled roof.
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