Villians is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Crofthouse.

Villians

WRENN ID
winding-cobble-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Crofthouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Villians Crofthouse is single storey, three bays wide and built in harled rubble with a gabled porch in the centre bay. The porch has a four-pane timber fixed-light and a vertically-boarded timber door. Attached to the northeast gable of the crofthouse is a lower wing, constructed in flagstone rubble and used for storage. Adjoining this is a roofless barn .

The crofthouse has shallow-pitched felt roof and harled chimneystack on the gables. The lower wing has the remains of taekket (thatched) roof, understood to have been rethatched in 2014 with bale straw from Lerwick. The layers of straw are laid on an underlay of turf, and the roof has been netted with fishing nets and weighted along the eaves using stones and metal poles, which have been secured to the netting with string.

Outbuildings: flagstone rubble outbuildings to the southwest with a shallow-pitched tar roof.

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