Barnhill, Jura

It stands on the site of a larger 15th-century settlement, Cnoc an t-Sabhail; the English name Barnhill has been in use since the early twentieth century.

[1] The house was rented by the essayist and novelist George Orwell, who lived there intermittently from 1946 until January 1949.

According to a BBC report, Orwell was spending months on the island "to escape the daily grind of journalism and to find a clean environment which doctors thought would help him recover from a dangerous bout of tuberculosis".

[3][4] The cottage is still owned by the family that rented it to Orwell and the four-bedroom house is rented as a holiday cottage, remaining in virtually the same condition it was when the author was working on Nineteen Eighty-Four: a generator supplies electricity, the small refrigerator is gas-powered and heat is provided by a coal-fired Rayburn.

He would recognise the place instantly if he were to step through the door today," Orwell Society member Damaris Fletcher told The Guardian.