Lower Springfield, Walls Village is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. House.

Lower Springfield, Walls Village

WRENN ID
odd-parapet-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
House
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1800, with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic 3-bay near-symmetrical house of rectangular plan with gabled single storey store to rear forming L-plan. Harled and whitewashed rubble walls to house, harl-pointed rubble walls and timber framing to store.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical, 2-pane fanlight over entrance door at ground centre bay (off-set slightly to right), regular fenestration in flanking bays and at 1st floor; harled and gabled dormerheads to slate-hung wallhead dormers in outer bays.

NW AND SE GABLES: blank.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: store advanced at left, single loft window centring original SW gable, extended in rubble at right, timber framing to SE side with large vertically-boarded timber doors, tarred roof; modern single storey addition in re-entrant angle to right (obscuring centre bay) with modern 4-pane glazing in window to right; windows in outer bays only at 1st floor.

4-pane timber sash and case windows; grey slate roof; harled skew-copes and coped gablehead stacks with circular cans.

GARDEN WALL: drystone rubble wall enclosing garden to NE tapering to N.

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