Audio Guide Tankerness House Garden
Audio guide Tankerness House Garden in English
In this audio guide, Emily Thompson takes you through Tankerness House Garden telling the story as you walk. In your accent, no need to read signs — just let your eyes take in what's in front of you.
What you'll hear inside Tankerness House Garden:
- 1Baikie Library
A faithfully preserved 19th-century room within the Orkney Museum at Tankerness House, giving a vivid sense of daily domestic life when the Baikie family lived here.
- 2Baikie Drawing Room
Remodelled in 1820 for James Baikie, 8th Laird of Tankerness, this room within the Orkney Museum evokes the genteel domestic atmosphere of a 19th-century Orcadian household.
- 3Broad Street Arched Gateway
A carved stone archway built in 1574 by Archdeacon Gilbert Foulzie, forming the main entrance from Broad Street into the Tankerness House courtyard.
- 4Courtyard
The architectural heart of Tankerness House, enclosed on all four sides by the building's wings and reached through a carved stone arch facing St Magnus Cathedral.
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