Booth, Smithfield, Fetlar

The building is a byre located at Smithfield, Fetlar, dated 1815. It is a Palladian-style merchant laird’s house featuring a two-storey, three-bay principal block with its entrance facing west. This block is flanked to the north and south by single-storey, two-bay pavilions. There is a formal arrangement of walled enclosures connecting to a byre and a store to the northeast, along with a single-storey booth situated at the shorefront to the west. The walls are constructed of random rubble with polished, stugged, and droved sandstone dressings.

The west (entrance) elevation of the principal block is symmetrical, featuring a double-doored porch with a narrow window to the east in the center bay, leading to the entrance door that has a lintel inscribed with "GS 1815." The fenestration is regular in the flanking bays and at the first floor, although it has partially collapsed as of 1997.

The south gable is blank, while the east (rear) elevation is asymmetrical with three bays, including a large stair window in the center bay and a door at ground level in the left bay only. The north gable has a single window to the left at the first floor.

The building features random rubble gablehead stacks with stugged sandstone dressings and stone copes, as well as sandstone ashlar skew copes with bracketed skewputts.

The south pavilion has a two-bay west elevation with a door in the left bay and a window in the right bay, along with a single window centered in the east (rear) elevation. It has a rubble stack on the south gable. The north pavilion is a mirrored image of the south pavilion but has a false gablehead stack on the south gable.

The walls, byre, and store consist of a formal arrangement of random rubble walled enclosures on either side of the house, including a low garden wall to the west of the principal elevation, which has a single square pier from a former central gateway. There is a paddock to the northeast, bounded to the south by a long two-chamber byre. A small store is located at the northeast corner, featuring a doorway in the west elevation and slit ventilators in the north elevation.

The booth is a random rubble store with an entrance door and window centered in the south and north gables, respectively, and ventilators in the side elevations.