Manor House Of Burravoe, Burravoe, Yell

A laird's house built in 1860 and substantially altered around 1920, set on a sloping site descending to the south-east towards the sea. The core of the building is a mid-19th century 2-storey 3-bay haa (traditional Shetland hall-house) with a parallel single-storey building to its south-east originally constructed as a trading booth. Around 1920, this booth was converted into a wing with symmetrical verandah and gazebo features.

The walls throughout are harled and cement-rendered rubble with dressed sandstone ashlar margins and dressings. Window cills project outward as a notable decorative feature.

The south-east (seaward) elevation presents the most elaborate façade. The former booth wing offers a near-symmetrical 4-bay front. At ground level are vertically-boarded timber doors in the outer bays and hoppered 4-pane glazing in others. The principal feature is a projecting 2-storey canted gazebo, open at ground level and glazed above with a tripartite window to its south-east facet, angled side facets with glazing, and 2-leaf glazed doors. The gazebo has a crenellated parapet with beach stone finials breaking the eaves, and is flanked by timber-balustraded steel balconies with beach-stone-finialled piers at corners; the northern balcony includes an open timber stair. A tripartite timber window appears to the right of the gazebo. Behind this elevation, the haa's 3 bays are largely obscured by a single-storey link block, which features a vertically-boarded door with a 2-pane fanlight and ground-floor windows in the outer bays. Regular windows appear at first-floor level.

The south-west (entrance) elevation shows 2-storey end gables, one from each wing. Only the right bay of each gable has an upper-floor window. A single-storey link block recesses between them, featuring a shallow-gabled entrance porch with beach-stone finials.

The north-west (rear) elevation is near-symmetrical with 4 bays (grouped in pairs). A smaller window and larger window flank the centre at ground level; a lean-to store occupies the outer left bay. First-floor fenestration is regular throughout. A 4-flue wallhead stack breaks the eaves at the centre.

The north-east gable elevation has blank stonework to the haa's advanced gable end on the right, with a square 2-light timber window in the booth wing gable to the left. The link block between has a window at ground level.

The haa and link block feature 12-pane timber sash-and-case glazing; the booth wing has modern glazing. Roofs are shallow-pitched, the haa covered with corrugated sheet cladding and the booth wing with mineral felt. Harled chimney stacks with circular can copes rise from both.

A monopitch rubble store stands to the south-west of the house, aligned with the shore. Its south elevation has 2 widely-spaced bayed windows with modern glazing, a crenellated parapet with beach-stone finials, and modern doors to its west gable and roof.

Built into the seafront bank is a single-storey mono-pitch former boat store in an L-plan. Its 4-bay shore-facing elevation includes boarded windows and vertically-boarded doors, with an advanced gable to the right integral with a sea wall that extends along the terrace. A rubble slipway runs parallel with a grass-surfaced pier that extends seaward.

The entrance gates comprise harled square piers topped with copes and beach-stone finials, supporting plain 2-leaf iron gates.

The setting includes a walled garden to the north of the drive and west of the house, a concrete-surfaced rubble terrace to the south-east front of the booth wing, and a grass avenue extending northward, terminated by a timber gate with beach-stone-finialled rubble piers. Extensive rubble boundary and retaining walls with regularly-spaced beach-stone crenellations enclose the site. Ashlar steps rise at the north and south gables of the booth wing. Wrought-iron pedestrian gates with harled square piers and beach-stone finials provide access to the walled garden.