Swinster is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Enclosure.

Swinster

WRENN ID
rough-baluster-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Enclosure
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Swinster is a later 19th-century square pony pound, featuring harl pointed rubble walls with stugged sandstone dressings and raised wallheads at the corners. The northwest elevation is symmetrical, with an entrance gate located at the center. On the southwest elevation, there is a single doorway positioned towards the outer right.

Inside, the main enclosure is divided by a rubble wall that runs from the center of the northwest to the southeast elevations, enclosing the northeast side of a passage that leads to a four-chamber square inner enclosure made of battered rubble walls, with gates grouped at the center. The inner wallhead and cross walls indicate where a near-continuous mono pitch roof once existed, but this has since been removed in 1996. A modern flat-roofed shed has been constructed in the western corner.

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