About The Glebe

The Glebe has a comfortable double bedroom with wardrobe and drawers to stow your belongings.

The adjacent shower toom has both overhead and hand-held shower heads, and a heated towel rail.

The living area has an entrance space, a sitting room with sofa and dining table, and a well-provisioned kitchen.

With underfloor heating throughout, the cottage is always pleasantly warm. There is an additional electric radiator for immediate heat.

Electric oven and hob, microwave, kitchen utensils, fridge with freezer compartment, washing machine, washing pulley, TV (with Freeview), DVD player, books, games.

Owing to our partially off-grid location, our internet is supplied via satellite and so provision is limited. We kindly ask that you avoid using streaming services whilst at The Glebe.

Mobile signal is intermittent around the property - it really is a perfect location to 'get away from it all'!

Electricity (includes all heating), bedlinen and towels, basic toiletries, kitchen and dining utensils, tea & coffee etc., cleaning & clothes washing essentials.

We supply a welcome basket with some local produce and basic breakfast items.

Dietary requirements can be catered for - just let us know.

The site of the Old Manse and Glebe was originally called Brinnigar (Brown's Garth) - the name it retains on O.S. Maps - and was recorded as a functioning farm from the late 1500s. From the late 1700s onwards, the Minister for both Stromness and Sandwick parishes lived here, and the Glebe was the farmworker's cottage attached to the manse.

Around 1900, when herring fishing was at its height, our house, The Old Manse, burnt down. Until we renovated, it was used as a cow byre. The Glebe cottage remained intact and occupied until the 1970s.

The black and white photo, taken from the top of the Warbeth Road, shows the herring fleets in Hoy Sound and, to the right, the shell of The Old Manse with the (white) roof of the Glebe. The smoke in the middle ground is kelp burning at Warbeth