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
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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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