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
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Crofthouse
- OS grid reference
- HU 429 283
- Coordinates
- 60.03739, -1.23159
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Villians Crofthouse is a single-storey building that is three bays wide, constructed from harled rubble. It features a gabled porch in the center bay, which includes a four-pane timber fixed-light window and a vertically-boarded timber door. Attached to the northeast gable of the crofthouse is a lower wing made of flagstone rubble, used for storage. Next to this wing is a roofless barn.
The crofthouse has a shallow-pitched felt roof and harled chimneystacks on the gables. The lower wing retains the remains of a taekket (thatched) roof, which was rethatched in 2014 using bale straw sourced from Lerwick. The straw is laid over an underlay of turf, and the roof is secured with fishing nets and weighted along the eaves with stones and metal poles, which are tied to the netting with string.
There are also flagstone rubble outbuildings to the southwest, which have a shallow-pitched tar roof.
Local climate
Villians sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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