Round House, Gruting, Fetlar is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Summerhouse.

Round House, Gruting, Fetlar

WRENN ID
pale-panel-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Summerhouse
OS grid reference
HU 647 911
Coordinates
60.59879, -0.81922
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Round House in Gruting, Fetlar, is an early 19th-century single-storey classical summerhouse, which is now in ruins as of 1997. The structure features a circular main chamber with lower wings extending to the east and west, which curve forward to flank an entrance loggia at the south, framed by engaged columns. There is a fireplace located on the east side of the principal chamber.

Local climate

Round House, Gruting, Fetlar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 97% 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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