North House, Melby is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Laird's house.

North House, Melby

WRENN ID
grey-kitchen-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
Laird's house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

18th century. Former laird's house comprising 3-bay 2-storey house single storey 10-bay steading (aligned with house) adjoining N gable. Harled walls to house, with stugged sandstone ashlar margins to door and windows; harl-pointed rubble walls to steading. 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with glazed uppers centred at ground in principal (E) elevation; windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration at 1st floor. 2-bay S gable with single window at 1st floor in bay to right. 10-bay E elevation to steading with variety of doors and windows.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to house; purple-grey slate roof with ashlar skew-copes and bracketted skewputts; harled gablehead stacks, coped with circular cans. Purple-grey slate roof to steading, piended at N end, single-flue ridge stack with circular can.

WALLS: random rubble walls enclosing ground to S and W of house.

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