Walled Garden, Burrastow House is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Cottage.
Walled Garden, Burrastow House
- WRENN ID
- standing-buttress-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HU 223 478
- Coordinates
- 60.21406, -1.59893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Burrastow House is an early 19th century, single-storey and attic structure that was originally a trading booth. It features a symmetrical three-bay design, with the main facade facing east. The walls are made of harl-pointed rubble. The principal elevation has a centrally located vertically-boarded timber door, with windows on either side. There are slate-hung gabled timber dormers that break the eaves in the outer bays.
On the south gable, there are windows at both the ground and first floors in the left bay, along with a garden wall that extends to the left. This wall has a raised wallhead above a vertically-boarded timber door and a plate glass fixed-light for a rear lean-to. The north gable also features a vertically-boarded timber door and a 2-pane fixed-light at the ground and first floors, respectively, in the left bay. The roof is covered with blue-grey and purple-grey slate, and there are harl-pointed rubble gablehead stacks that are coped with circular cans.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Burrastow House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 99% 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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