Muckle Rysa Farmhouse, Walls, Hoy is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. House.
Muckle Rysa Farmhouse, Walls, Hoy
- WRENN ID
- strange-keystone-swift
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 307 968
- Coordinates
- 58.85304, -3.20264
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Muckle Rysa Farmhouse is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse that is rendered.
The east elevation features a central door painted navy blue, with windows on either side, and three first-floor windows centered above. On the northeast elevation, there is a ground floor window to the left and a first-floor window to the right, along with a lean-to porch at the far right. The west elevation has narrow, central windows on both the ground and first floors. The south elevation includes a ground and first floor window to the right, a lean-to porch set back to the left, a door to the right, and a window to the left.
The doors are timber boarded, and the east door has a narrow rectangular fanlight above it. The windows are predominantly 8-pane timber sash and case, with one remaining 12-pane window. The roof is pitched and covered with stone slates from Caithness, featuring crowstepped gables and coped gable end stacks. There is a modern slated roof on the lean-to porch.
The interior was not seen in 2000.
A rubble flag wall encloses a small garden to the east, with plain, square-plan gatepiers also located to the east.
Local climate
Muckle Rysa Farmhouse, Walls, Hoy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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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