Linkshouse, Mid Yell, Yell is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 January 1992. House. 2 related planning applications.

Linkshouse, Mid Yell, Yell

WRENN ID
silver-hinge-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 January 1992
Type
House
OS grid reference
HU 516 908
Coordinates
60.59762, -1.05887
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Linkshouse in Mid Yell, Yell, is a former merchant's house built in 1770. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a three-bay near-symmetrical design and a rectangular plan, featuring harled rubble walls.

The north elevation, facing the sea, is near-symmetrical with a door located to the left of the center on the ground floor, and blank spaces in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration.

The west gable is asymmetrical with two bays, containing windows only in the left bay at the first floor and attic levels.

On the south elevation, the door is offset to the right of center on the ground floor, with a raggle indicating the position of a former gabled porch above. There are windows in the flanking bays and at the first floor in the center and left bays only.

The east gable features a single window to the left at the first floor. The building is topped with harled stacks and concrete skew-copes on the gables.

Local climate

Linkshouse, Mid Yell, Yell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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