Grobsness Haa, Grobsness is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Haa.
Grobsness Haa, Grobsness
- WRENN ID
- secret-casement-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Haa
- OS grid reference
- HU 368 633
- Coordinates
- 60.35261, -1.33356
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Grobsness Haa is an 18th-century, two-storey and attic building featuring a symmetrical three-bay layout with two bay gables. The exterior is constructed with lime harl pointed rubble walls, accented by stugged and droved sandstone ashlar dressings.
The west elevation is symmetrical, with a centrally located entrance door at ground level flanked by windows, and regular window placement on the first floor. The south gable is nearly symmetrical, with windows in the bays on the first floor and a partially infilled window in the attic on the left side. The east elevation is asymmetrical, consisting of three bays; it has a small window centered at ground level, a door to the right, and a window to the outer left. On the first floor, there is a small window centered, with partially infilled windows in the outer bays.
The building originally had a stone slab roof, which has now collapsed. Inside, there is a large segmental arched opening in the north gable, which may have been a lintel or safe lintel for the kitchen fireplace.
Surrounding the building is a rectangular enclosure with a random rubble wall adjacent to the west elevation, along with a two-chamber random rubble outbuilding located at the northwest corner. An additional outbuilding with a surviving south gable is situated to the east of the house.
Local climate
Grobsness Haa, Grobsness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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.
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