The Hall, Uyea is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Laird's house. 1 related planning application.
The Hall, Uyea
- WRENN ID
- shifting-parapet-khaki
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Laird's house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1818, with later 19th century alterations. Single storey and attic 4-bay (grouped 2-2) symmetrical former laird's house with lower single storey and attic service wing to rear forming approximate T-plan. Harl-pointed rubble walls with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Block finials to gableheads.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 5-pane fanlight to entrance door at centre of elevation; regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors in flanking and outer bays; dormers breaking eaves at 1st floor with bracketted skewputts to gabled stone dormerheads.
SE GABLE: blank.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: window at ground, and dormer matching principal elevation at 1st floor, to right of centre. Service wing advanced at left comprising 2 windows in NW side, blank gable to NE, gabled stone porch centred in SE side with block finial to gablehead and door in N re-entrant angle.
NW GABLE: blank.
Purple-grey slate roof with droved sandstone ashlar skew copes to principal range, pegged stone slab slates with red ridge tiles harl-pointed rubble skew copes to rear wing and porch, latter with bottle-glass-paned skylight. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes with hoppers between bays of principal elevation. Harl-pointed rubble ridge stacks with droved sandstone ashlar dressings flanking centre of principal range and tall harled ridge stack to rear wing, all stone-coped with circular cans.
INTERIOR: few original fitting surviving in predominantly ruinous interior. Timber stair in apsidal plaster well, and stone fireplace lintel inscribed Thomas Leisk 1818, at centre of principal range.
OUTBUILDING: 2-chamber building with door in each end gable and rubble-walled run to NE side; harl-pointed rubble walls and purple-grey slate roof with ventilators.
TERRACE WALL: low concrete-coped harl-pointed rubble wall of semicircular plan, swept up to meet corners of principal elevation.
WALLED GARDEN: to SE of house; rectangular plan with stone-slab-lintelled gateway in NW wall, fronted internally by drystone-walled terrace.
EARL'S GARDEN: to SE of house; simple rectangular drystone-walled enclosure.
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