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Latitude: 59.3083 / 59°18'29"N
Longitude: -2.9767 / 2°58'36"W
OS Eastings: 344486
OS Northings: 1047279
OS Grid: HY444472
Mapcode National: GBR M404.344
Mapcode Global: XH8KG.J9QG
Plus Code: 9CFV825F+88
Entry Name: House, Braehead, Westray
Listing Name: Braehead, Blinkbonny House Including Outbuilding
Listing Date: 30 March 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395410
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47991
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395410
Location: Westray
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Westray
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House Outbuilding
Later 19th century. 2-storey, T-plan house. Single storey, linear outbuilding to rear. Harled flagstone.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2 bays set back to left; window to far left; door to right; single 1st floor windows centred above. Advanced, pitched single bay to right; central bipartite ground floor window; single window centred above.
W ELEVATION: plain gable.
N ELEVATION: advanced, pitched wing to left; plain gable. Wing set back to right; window (former door) to left; narrow 1st floor window centred above.
E ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation; central, advanced chimney-breast; raking shoulders above eaves. Large flanking bipartite windows to ground floor; smaller flanking bipartite 1st floor windows.
2-pane fanlight above boarded door. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. 12-pane timber sash and case bipartite windows; lying panes; timber mullion to S. 8-pane timber sash and case bipartite windows to E elevation; timber mullions. Pitched, Orkney stone roof. Coped gable end stack to W; coped wallhead stack to E; advanced chimney-breast; clay cans.
INTERIOR: 20th century interior.
GARDEN WALL
Low rubble wall extends southwards from E gable; central opening to S; 1 square-plan rubble gatepier remains. Taller wall extends southwards from W gable; gateway to N.
OUTBUILDING
S ELEVATION: blocked central door; 3 regularly place windows to right; 4 windows to left. Raggles of former lean-to structure remain to far left.
W ELEVATION: plain gable.
N ELEVATION: partially seen; window to far right; lean-to shed to left; modern lean-to shed to centre.
E ELEVATION: door; 2 boarded sliding doors.
Predominantly 3-pane timber windows. Gable end stack to W. Pitched roof; corrugated asbestos cladding.
INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.
Blinkbonny was originally a school. This substantial traditional building is particularly notable for its unusual elevation to the E with advanced central chimney-breast and large windows flanking. The outbuilding operated as a smithy between 1953 and 1967.
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