North Ness, Gutters Hut Lerwick, Scotland
Listed Building Data
North Ness, Gutters Hut has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 390195 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 43630
- Canmore ID
- 141853
- Category
- B
- Name
- North Ness, Gutters' Hut
- Parish
- Lerwick
- County
- Shetland Islands
- Easting
- 447530
- Northing
- 1141920
- Date Listed
- 12 August 1996
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Circa 1900. 2-storey 13 x 3-bay gutters? hut of rectangular plan. Corrugated-iron clad timber frame construction on concrete base. Timber door and window surrounds with projecting cills. Full-length timber walkway at 1st floor with cast-iron handrail supported on projecting timber joists, returned at E and W elevations to open timber stairs. N ELEVATION: asymmetrical, ground floor; wide door at centre bay with windows in flanking 4 bays, wide doors in flanking bays, doors in penultimate bay to left and in bay to outer right. 1st floor; square window in centre bay with windows in flanking 4 bays, wide door in bay to right, door and window closely spaced in bay to left, door in penultimate bay to left, blank bays to outer left and right. E ELEVATION: bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors in bay to left. Regular fenestration in bays at right except blank at ground floor to right. S (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration with lean-to at ground. 6-pane hoppered timber windows. Corrugated-iron clad roof with cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Cement-rendered stacks, coped with circular cans.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
One of the last surviving of these once prolific buildings which were a major feature of Lerwick?s townscape during the Herring Boom.
