Greenwell's Booth, Uyeasound, Unst is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 June 1982. Trading booth.

Greenwell's Booth, Uyeasound, Unst

WRENN ID
grim-cornice-indigo
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 June 1982
Type
Trading booth
OS grid reference
HP 592 010
Coordinates
60.68857, -0.91787
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Greenwell's Booth in Uyeasound, Unst, dates from around 1646 and is a former trading booth that is now a roofless shell, as of 1997. It has a rectangular plan with random rubble walls.

The northeast elevation is near-symmetrical, featuring a rubble forestair that leads to a door centered on the first floor, with blank spaces in the flanking bays. The southeast elevation, which faces the seafront, is asymmetrical, with a wide doorway at the ground floor and a window adjacent to the right, along with another window to the outer right on the first floor. The southwest elevation is symmetrical, dominated by a massive boulder buttress that obscures the ground floor, while the first floor has regular fenestration.

Local climate

Greenwell's Booth, Uyeasound, Unst sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 97% 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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