Maryfield House, including boundary walls and gatepiers is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. House, hotel. 2 related planning applications.

Maryfield House, including boundary walls and gatepiers

WRENN ID
sleeping-tin-lark
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
House, hotel
Address
Maryfield House, including boundary walls and gatepiers, ZE2 9EL
OS grid reference
HU 489 418
Coordinates
60.1579, -1.12053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Maryfield House, dating from the early 19th century, is a two-storey and attic, three-bay symmetrical L-plan house that has been converted into a hotel. The principal elevation is harled, while the side and rear elevations are made of harl-pointed rubble with ashlar margined openings and projecting cills. A later flat-roofed entrance porch is centered on the ground floor, featuring a fixed light in the west wall and an entrance door in the north wall. The ground floor has windows flanking the porch, and the first floor displays regular fenestration. The side elevations are irregularly fenestrated, with a two-storey wing that projects at the left of the rear elevation, which includes a stair window in the re-entrant angle. A modern single-storey addition extends to the south and east.

The building features modern glazing throughout, a modern slate roof, and stugged sandstone and cement-rendered stacks with octagonal cans.

The boundary walls and gatepiers create a formal arrangement, consisting of square stugged sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal caps flanking the principal elevation. Flagstone rubble walls enclose gardens that extend to the east and west. There is a vertically-boarded timber door offset to the right in the west wall of the western garden, which extends to the right (south) to adjoin the east wall of a storehouse, noted in a separate listing.

Local climate

Maryfield House, including boundary walls and gatepiers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 98% 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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