Sandsair Pier, Fishery And Jetty, Sand Lodge is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 2003. Pier. 3 related planning applications.
Sandsair Pier, Fishery And Jetty, Sand Lodge
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pier-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 2003
- Type
- Pier
- Address
- Sandsair Pier, Fishery And Jetty, Sand Lodge, ZE2 9HP
- OS grid reference
- HU 435 249
- Coordinates
- 60.00682, -1.2205
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sandsair Pier, Fishery and Jetty, designed by David and Thomas Stevenson in 1853 and built in 1855, features a ramped rubble slipway that runs north-south into Wick of Sandsayre Bay, Leebotten. The deck is squared and snecked, approximately 18 feet wide, with vertically laid masonry on the retaining walls. The structure includes iron bar ties to the ramp and fixed iron mooring and securing rings at regular intervals.
Local climate
Sandsair Pier, Fishery And Jetty, Sand Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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