Erlangen, Mossbank is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. House.
Erlangen, Mossbank
- WRENN ID
- rusted-ember-myrtle
- 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
- 60.46168, -1.18327
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Erlangen, Mossbank is an early 19th century, two-storey house with an attic and three symmetrical bays. The walls are made of harl pointed rubble, featuring stugged and droved sandstone ashlar dressings, and there are projecting cills at the windows.
The east elevation is symmetrical, with a gabled porch that projects from the center bay. Windows are located in the flanking bays, and there is regular fenestration on the first floor.
The south gable is blank, showing the raggle of a former single-storey outbuilding. The west elevation has a single-storey rubble lean-to at the ground level, with a centrally placed border glazed stair window on the first floor.
The house has modern glazing throughout and a purple grey slate roof, with cement rendered skew copes and bracketted skewputts. There are coped rubble stacks with circular cans.
The garden wall consists of a rubble dwarf wall along the road, which has been built up in blocks where railings have been removed. There is also a rubble wall enclosing the garden to the south and east, incorporating the gable of the former outbuilding.
Local climate
Erlangen, 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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