"Skånland handelssted" (3 of 5)
Description
The general store was situated in one of the two red warehouses by the sea. This building from 1890 also contained the post office, the local shipping agent and the shipowner's office. There are many other buildings belonging to the trading post, most of them closer to the main house. The largest is the two storey combined livestock and hay barn just to the east. The barn has an octagonal white turret with a dinner bell. A "nordlandshus", a house typical for the county of Nordland, dating back to the 1820 was moved and re-erected west of the main farmhouse around 2000. This is now used by guests. There is also a storehouse and an octagonal summer house.
On Skånlandholmen is a summer cow shed which was moved there in recent times and it is thought that this is the oldest surviving of its kind in the Salten area. The farm did at one point have five tenant farmers with life tenures.
On Skånlandholmen is a summer cow shed which was moved there in recent times and it is thought that this is the oldest surviving of its kind in the Salten area. The farm did at one point have five tenant farmers with life tenures.