The Hamars, Haroldswick, Beach Road, Unst

The Hamars is a late 18th century farmhouse with a mid 19th century wing, located on Beach Road in Unst. This single-storey and attic, three-bay traditional farmhouse features a two-storey wing at the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. The exterior is finished with harled rubble walls.

On the southeast elevation, there is a modern door at the center, flanked by regularly spaced windows. The high wallhead conceals the attic. The northeast elevation shows the gable of the main range on the left, with the ground floor hidden by a modern lean-to addition. There is a window on the left at the first floor level, and the rear wing, which is slightly recessed to the right, has a small square window centered at the first floor.

The northwest (rear) elevation has a single window at ground level on the right, while the rear wing is advanced to the left of center, featuring a small window on the right at the first floor in the northwest-facing gable. The southeast elevation of the rear wing includes windows at both ground and first floors, along with a later rendered lean-to porch in the re-entrant angle. The southwest gable has a window to the right at the attic level, and the rear wing is recessed on the left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes in the principal range and 4 panes in the rear wing. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and includes small skylights on the principal range, while the rear wing has a stone slab roof. The gablehead stacks are made of harl-pointed rubble and are coped with circular cans. The principal range features ashlar skew copes, while the rear wing has cement-rendered copes.

Adjacent to the farmhouse is a random rubble L-plan steading, which consists of a gabled single-storey and loft range with a stone slab roof that aligns with the northeast side of the house. There is also a piend-roofed single-storey range that adjoins at right angles to the north. A vertically-boarded timber door is centered in the northwest gable, with additional doors located on the outer right of the northwest elevation of both ranges.

The garden is enclosed by a random rubble wall at the principal elevation, which continues as a harl-pointed rubble wall along the road to the southeast of the steading. Additional walls connect the northeast gable of the house to the steading and extend to the northwest.