Greenbank House, Greenbank, Yell is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. House.

Greenbank House, Greenbank, Yell

WRENN ID
north-tower-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
House
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Early 19th century, with later 19th and early 20th century additions. 2-storey and attic 3-bay symmetrical former merchant?s house with early 20th century single storey L-plan shop adjoining N gable and clasping NW corner, later 19th century single storey 2-bay outbuilding adjacent to NW. Harled and harl-pointed rubble walls.

E PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: symmetrical, 4-panel entrance door with plate glass fanlight at ground in centre bay, windows in flanking bays, regular fenestration at 1st floor.

S GABLE: blank, with modern lean-to greenhouse.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey lean-to wing projecting at centre, single storey lean-to wing advanced in bay to right, shop wing obscuring ground floor in bay to right, single window at 1st floor in bay to left.

N GABLE: blank, shop wing advanced at ground with entrance elevation to E centred by shop window with door to outer left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to house; plate glass fixed-light to shop. Purple-grey slate roof with sandstone ashlar skew-copes to house; harled gablehead stacks with stone copes and circular cans. Shallow-pitched roof clad in corrugated sheet to shop; tall, stepped, single-flue gablehead stack to shop with circular can.

OUTBUILDING: low-gabled harl-pointed rubble building of rectangular plan with principal elevation to E comprising small 9-pane fixed-light in bay to left, and vertically-boarded timber door to left of matching window grouped in bay to right. Shallow-pitched tarred felt roof with concrete skew-copes and rendered single-flue ridge stack with circular can.

GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS: drystone wall to rectangular garden enclosing E

front, lower E wall (now built up with concrete block), and drum corner piers with domical rubble caps; matching piers to drystone walls enclosing rear garden. Series of drystone walls enclosing large rectangular field to E, and 2 smaller fields to W.

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