The Steamer, Easter Skeld is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. House. 1 related planning application.
The Steamer, Easter Skeld
- WRENN ID
- other-minaret-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HU 311 448
- Coordinates
- 60.18721, -1.43941
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Steamer is an early 19th-century semi-detached house located in Easter Skeld. It is a single storey and attic structure with a symmetrical design and a rectangular plan, featuring lime-harled walls.
The principal elevation faces east and includes vertically-boarded timber doors with plate glass fanlights in the outer bays. There is a 12-pane timber sash and case window in the bay to the left of centre, and a plate glass timber sash and case window in the bay to the right.
The south elevation is blank, while the north elevation has a window at ground level to the left.
The roof is made of grey slate, with a piended and bellcast design, and features cast-iron gutters. At the centre of the ridge, there is a large 4-flue stack that is harled and coped, topped with circular cans.
Local climate
The Steamer, Easter Skeld sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Reawick Congregational Church
- Rear Wing, Reawick House, Reawick
- Outbuilding and Walls to Garden, Reawick House, Reawick
- Reawick House, Reawick
- North Wing, Centre Farmsteading Range, Reawick House, Reawick
- Centre Farmsteading Range, Reawick House, Reawick
- South Wing, Centre Farmsteading Range, Reawick House, Reawick
- South Farmsteading Range, Reawick House, Reawick
- Watermill, Reawick House, Reawick
- Cottage, Haa Of Sand