Voe House, Walls Village is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Double house. 1 related planning application.
Voe House, Walls Village
- WRENN ID
- upper-oriel-moss
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- Type
- Double house
- Address
- Voe House, Walls Village, ZE2 9PB
- OS grid reference
- HU 239 493
- Coordinates
- 60.22739, -1.56997
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Voe House, located in Walls Village, is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical double house. It was once part of an 11-bay terrace that included a single-storey and attic three-bay shop attached to the north gable, and a now-ruinous two-storey three-bay house to the south gable, which had a single-storey two-bay flat-roofed byre connected to it.
The double house features a symmetrical east elevation with a pair of vertically-boarded timber doors with fanlights at the centre on the ground floor, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The first floor has regular fenestration. The shop has an entrance door in the central bay, with margined four-pane fixed lights in the flanking bays, and a small square four-pane window to the right in the gable head.
The cottage and byre have three widely spaced bays on the east elevation, although the upper floor is mostly missing. There is a door and window in the left and right bays of the byre, respectively. The double cottage has nine, twelve, and sixteen-pane timber sash and case windows. Both the double cottage and the shop have purple-grey slate roofs with harled skew copes, which are wider on the south gable. The gable head stacks are made of harled rubble with stone copes and circular cans.
Local climate
Voe House, Walls Village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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