Bods With Retaining Wall And Steps, Ollaberry is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Former trading booths.
Bods With Retaining Wall And Steps, Ollaberry
- WRENN ID
- quiet-lantern-equinox
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Former trading booths
- OS grid reference
- HU 366 805
- Coordinates
- 60.50686, -1.33544
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bods with retaining wall and steps in Ollaberry date back to the early 19th century. This symmetrical pair of two-storey, three-bay former trading booths is situated on a sloping waterfront site and features harled rubble walls.
The southeast (principal) elevation has a six-bay design, grouped in threes, with near-matching three-bay sections. The central bay contains a wide door at ground level, flanked by regularly spaced windows in the other bays.
On the southwest gable, there are two bays with windows located in the right bay at both ground and first floor levels, while the left bay is blank. The northwest (rear) elevation includes a modern single-storey lean-to addition at the first floor level. The northeast gable has a modern single-storey addition that obscures the ground level, leaving the gable above blank.
The building features four-pane timber sash and case windows, and it is topped with a modern grey slate roof that has harled skew copes and apex stacks, the latter of which have stone copes and circular cans.
In front of the bods, there is a battered random rubble retaining wall leading to the sea, with rough stone steps providing access to the beach opposite the principal elevation.
Local climate
Bods With Retaining Wall And Steps, Ollaberry 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 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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