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Latitude: 59.056 / 59°3'21"N
Longitude: -3.1811 / 3°10'51"W
OS Eastings: 332353
OS Northings: 1019375
OS Grid: HY323193
Mapcode National: GBR L4HS.ZDX
Mapcode Global: WH69J.3MGZ
Entry Name: Burrian Broch,broch,Corrigall
Scheduled Date: 26 February 1937
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1428
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Birsay and Harray
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: West Mainland
Traditional County: Orkney
Early 20th century. 2-storey (with attic to rear), 8-bay, asymmetrical-plan detached villa. Squared, red sandstone and red brick. Base course.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to round-arched entrance; depressed panels to keystoned surround; timber door; letterbox fanlight; 6-light mullioned and transomed window to right; square-headed 3-light dormer aligned above. 3-light window at ground floor; 2-light window at 1st floor to advanced gable to penultimate bay to right; blind bay to outer right. 2 pairs of 2-light windows at ground floor to gabled bay to left of entrance; 4 single windows at 1st floor (larger window to left); 2 narrow slit windows to penultimate bay to left. Square-headed entrance and single window to left of recessed bay to outer left; small square opening above entrance.
W ELEVATION: not seen 1999.
S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; ground floor not seen 1999; gabled bay breaking eaves to centre, bipartite windows; regular fenestration to 1st floor of flanking bays; bays to outer right stepped down.
E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 gabled bays, bay to left advanced, window off-centre to right of ground floor, windows to right return; irregular fenestration to ground floor of bay to right, bipartite window to 1st floor.
Predominantly 8- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; stone skews; rooflights; gablehead, pitch and ridge brick stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: banded, square-plan brick gatepiers; (finials to screen wall to E of main house); iron and timber gates; terracotta ridge to brick boundary wall enclosing site.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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