Tower, Mucklaberry, Vaila is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Folly.
Tower, Mucklaberry, Vaila
- WRENN ID
- unlit-landing-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- HU 221 467
- Coordinates
- 60.20489, -1.60274
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a tower located at Mucklaberry, Vaila, dating from the early 19th century with alterations made around 1900. It is a two-storey, symmetrical castellated folly with a square plan, featuring harl-pointed rubble walls. The east elevation has a round-arched door at the ground floor and a round-arched window at the first floor. On the west elevation, there are two closely spaced windows at the ground level, with four small gothic niches above them and a round-arched window centered at the first floor. The tower is topped with a corniced and crenellated parapet, which includes a crenellated circular turret at the northeast corner. The windows have fixed timber glazing, and there is a wallhead stack with a circular chimney on the east parapet.
Local climate
Tower, Mucklaberry, Vaila sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 99% 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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