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

HUXTER, SMITHFIELD CROFT, INCLUDING KAILYARD WALLLB45304

Status: Removed

Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Category
B
Date Added
30/03/1998
Date Removed:
07/07/2023
Local Authority
Shetland Islands
Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Parish
Walls And Sandness
NGR
HU 17722 57396
Coordinates
417722, 1157396

Removal Reason

This building does not meet the criteria for listing

Description

Early 19th century. Small farm group comprising single storey and attic two-bay farmhouse with single storey barn adjoining east gable and roofless single storey barn adjoining south (rear) elevation, with a further barn aligning east side of south barn. Harled rubble walls to house, drystone walls to barns. Cement-rendered skew-copes. Tarred roofs to barns adjoining east gable and east wall.

Farmhouse: north (principal) elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled concrete double-doored porch in bay to left and a small window in bay to right. Harled gablehead chimneystacks, east chimney with stone-cope, west chimney with concrete-cope and circular cans. Interior (seen in 1998) bracketted timber chimneypiece in west wall and timber stair in southeast corner.

Barn at rear with single window in south gablehead, vertically-boarded timber door to left in west wall.

Two-bay barn adjoining east gable, with door in bay to right and rubble-infilled window in bay to left.

Kailyard Wall: drystone rubble wall enclosing rectangular kailyard to south and east.

Statement of Special Interest

A now rare example of a small farmhouse with its interior and outbuildings still surviving.

The previous listed building record (written in 1998) described the farmhouse with a stone slab roof and the rear barn with a thatched roof and linkstanes. In 2006 the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland noted that the majority of these roof structures have been lost.

Listed building record revised in 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.

References

Bibliography

Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/ Canmore ID 179705.

Printed Sources

Finnie. M. (1990) Shetland p.58.

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Scotland (2016) A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland. London: SPAB. p.292.

Online Sources

Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. Smithfield Croft, Huxter at https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/906739 (accessed 04/03/2019).

About Listed Buildings

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Images

Smithfield Croft, Huxter, Shetland Islands, principal elevation, from northwest, on a cloudy day with blue sky.

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