Fishing Station, Stenness is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Former trading booth.
Fishing Station, Stenness
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chapel-reed
- 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
- Former trading booth
- OS grid reference
- HU 214 771
- Coordinates
- 60.47724, -1.61175
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Fishing Station in Stenness is a 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay gabled former trading booth that is now roofless. Its walls are made of red sandstone and granite rubble. The principal (west) elevation features a doorway at the center, with a blank bay to the left and a small window in the right bay. Above the small window, there is a larger window.
On the north elevation, there is a small window to the left in the gable head, and a square vent infilled with rubble is centered at ground floor level, with a window to the left on the first floor. Inside, there are fireplaces centered in the gables on the upper floor, with rubble apex stacks that have stone copes.
Local climate
Fishing Station, Stenness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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