Netherbutton is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Farm steading.
Netherbutton
- WRENN ID
- quiet-keystone-bramble
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Farm steading
- OS grid reference
- HY 459 044
- Coordinates
- 58.92362, -2.94074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Netherbutton is a later 19th-century single-storey farm steading that has undergone some alterations and additions. It features a long rectangular plan with six bays and lean-to additions at the rear. The exterior is harled, with concrete block cills, and there are outbuildings to the east and west.
On the northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a window in a flat-roofed square-plan entrance porch located in the bay to the right of the center. To the right of the porch is a timber door, and there is a window in the outer right bay. Each bay to the left also contains a window, with a boarded door in the penultimate left bay and another window in the outer left bay.
The southeast elevation, or rear, features a lean-to addition that spans the outer left bays, with a window in each bay. There is also a window in the left return and a regularly fenestrated projection to the outer right, which has a wallhead stack on the right return.
The windows are predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case, with evenly spaced small rooflights on the north-south pitch. The roof is covered with graded Caithness stone tiles, while the rear additions have corrugated-iron roofs. The building has a stone ridge, concrete skews, and harled, coped gablehead and ridge stacks.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
The boundary walls consist of a squared, roughly coursed rubble wall along the northwest boundary, with square-plan rubble piers at the north end topped with concrete pyramidal caps.
There are also outbuildings, including a single-storey, 2-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical structure with ball-finialled gables located to the west of the steading. This outbuilding has a window in the left bay and a boarded door to the right, with a Welsh purple slate roof and a stone ridge. Additionally, there is a larger ball-finialled coursed rubble outbuilding to the southeast of the steading, which has extensive later additions.
Local climate
Netherbutton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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