Quendale Haa is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. House.

Quendale Haa

WRENN ID
winter-chancel-solstice
Grade
B
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 371 131
Coordinates
59.90167, -1.3384
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Quendale Haa is a house built around 1800, featuring two storeys and an attic with a symmetrical three-bay design. There is a later addition to the west gable. The exterior is finished with harled walls and has droved ashlar margins and dressings, along with projecting window sills.

On the south elevation, there is a gabled single-storey porch that projects from the center bay. This porch has a wide window at the front and a six-panel, two-leaf flush-beaded timber door on the west elevation. Symmetrical stone steps flank the porch, and there is an infilled door that has been harled over on the east elevation. The flanking bays feature regular fenestration, and there are windows on the first floor. To the left, there is a ruined single-bay west wing that is slightly advanced, and to the right, a lean-to east wing with a window.

The west gable has a ruined addition that projects at ground level, with windows centered in both the north and south elevations, and a single attic window to the right in the gablehead.

The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrical, featuring two small windows at ground level in the center bay, a blank bay to the left, and a window offset to the right in the bay on the right. The first floor has a blank center bay.

On the east gable, there is a lean-to wing at ground level and a single attic window to the left in the gablehead.

The roof is made of purple slate with a clay tile ridge and ashlar skew copes. The harled apex stacks have stone copes and circular cans.

The property is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall to the south, which includes a droved ashlar gateway with a lintel adjoining the west wing.

Local climate

Quendale Haa 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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