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General view of side elevation.
O 565
Description General view of side elevation.
Date 10/1966
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number O 565
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 793795
Scope and Content West elevation of Trumland House, Rousay, Orkney Islands This is the west wall of the house. Built in a Scottish Jacobean style, the house is 'double-pile'. This means it is rectangular in shape and two rooms deep. The large, two-storeyed bay window on the south side of the house can be seen to the right. The house looks over the bay towards the islands of Wyre, Egilsay and Gairsay. General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs was the local landowner. He owned Rousay and Wyre from 1853 onwards, settling there with his wife in 1870. His wife had found the 18th-century mansion house, Westness, old-fashioned, and so Trumland was built. Trumland House on Rousay in Orkney was built in 1872-3 for General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs and designed by the architect, David Bryce (1803-76). The site for the house was chosen specially as it was sheltered enough for trees to grow. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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