Viera Lodge, Rousay is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 July 1993. 1 related planning application.
Viera Lodge, Rousay
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hinge-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1993
- Address
- Viera Lodge, Rousay, KW17 2PT
- OS grid reference
- HY 392 280
- Coordinates
- 59.13529, -3.06363
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Boathouse at Viera Lodge in Rousay is a late 18th-century, two-storey house with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a single-storey service wing to the west, finished in white harling.
On the south elevation, there is a central doorway featuring a panelled door with glazed upper panels. Flanking this doorway are single windows at both the first floor and ground floor. The single-storey service wing is attached to the outer right side.
The north (rear) elevation showcases a two-storey M-gabled wing that projects forward and includes a lean-to porch. There are single windows located at the ground and first floors to the right of the porch, and another single window at the first floor to the left of the porch.
The west elevation features a single-storey wing that advances at ground level and has no openings. The east elevation is gabled with a single window at ground level to the right. The building has 12-pane sash and case windows and a Caithness slate roof, which is laid on battens and secured with wooden pegs or nails. The gablehead stacks are coped, and there are small skylights on the south side.
Inside, the property includes panelled doors, plaster cornices, and original fireplaces. Additionally, there is a single-storey pitch-roofed boathouse, single-storey M-gabled outbuildings with slate roofs and stone ridging, as well as drystone gatepiers and boundary walls surrounding the property.
Local climate
Viera Lodge, Rousay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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