Mossbank Haa, Mossbank is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. House.
Mossbank Haa, Mossbank
- WRENN ID
- eastward-moat-sable
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- HU 450 756
- Coordinates
- 60.46173, -1.18217
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mossbank Haa is an 18th-century, two-storey and attic house with three bays and asymmetrical design, featuring single-storey wings to the south. The walls are smooth rendered and whitewashed.
The north (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, showcasing a variety of windows at the ground level and a more regular arrangement of narrow windows on the first floor.
On the east gable, there is a gable from a former outbuilding with a centrally located door, which projects to the left of centre and connects to a gabled rear wing.
The west gable has a single window positioned to the right of centre, with a rubble wall extending to the right that encloses a courtyard. This wall is terminated to the south by a single-storey, three-bay, piend-roofed harled rubble outbuilding that has a lean-to at the northern end.
The south (rear) elevation features regular fenestration on the first floor. The house and the east wing have modern glazing and a grey tile roof, while the west wing has four-pane timber fixed-lights and a felted roof. The principal gables have harled apex stacks with stone copes and circular cans, and the south gable of the east wing has a harled apex stack with thackstanes and a circular can.
Local climate
Mossbank Haa, Mossbank 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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