Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

HILLSWICK, HILLSWICK HOUSE, INCLUDING GATEPIERS, OUTBUILDINGS, COTTAGE, GARDEN AND BOUNDARY WALLSLB18688

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/10/1977
Supplementary Information Updated
13/12/2018
Local Authority
Shetland Islands
Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Parish
Northmaven
NGR
HU 28218 77040
Coordinates
428218, 1177040

Description

Late 18th century (possibly incorporating earlier fabric), with later additions. Single storey and attic 3-bay symmetrical house presiding over courtyard to S, flanked by single storey outbuildings to W, and 2-storey wing and booth to E; additional range parallel to W with further store and cottage to N. Harled walls with painted droved sandstone ashlar dressings.

HOUSE: symmetrical, margined Venetian doorway at centre with 6-pane fixed-light flanking and radial fanlight above, ashlar forestair with cast-iron railing. Margined windows in flanking bays; gabled timber dormers with decorative barge boards breaking eaves in outer bays. Rear elevation; roofless lean-to at ground, small windows at principal floor centring elevation and to left.

W WING: single storey rubble store enclosing W side of courtyard; blank elevation to courtyard; vertically-boarded timber door centring N gable; modern opening off-set to left in S gable, 4-bay (grouped 1-3)

W elevation; 6-pane fixed-light with raised cill in each bay.

E WING: 2-storey early 19th century section to N, returned to E gable of house, stepping down to single storey 2-bay section to S; door and square window to courtyard; 2-bay S gable with door at ground in bay to left and regular fenestration in right bay and at 1st floor; irregularly fenestrated E elevation.

GATEPIERS: harled walls enclosing courtyard to S; classical square stugged sandstone ashlar gatepiers with V-jointed rustication; corniced caps with ball finials.

E RANGE: blank elevations, other than 2 vertically-boarded timber doors to outer left of W elevation, and wide vertically-boarded timber door centred at ground in S gable with fixed-light above.

STORE: aligned to N with E range, gabled with battered walls, door centring E elevation.

4 and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate roofs with concrete skew copes. Mixture of harled rubble and rubble apex stacks to gables of house and wings, stone copes with circular cans.

COTTAGE: single storey and attic cottage with 2 porches to S elevation; blank elevation to N and S.

BOUNDARY WALLS: harl-pointed rubble walls with triangular rubble cope enclosing rectangular garden to W; N wall articulated into semicircular niche at centre, and continues E to cottage.

Statement of Special Interest

The wing to the E of the courtyard was known until recently as The Booth public house, as it had reputedly functioned as a trading booth since Adolf Westerman, a Hamburg merchant established a booth there in 1684.

References

Bibliography

Mike Finnie SHETLAND (1990) p64. John Gifford HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (1992) p479.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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