Bod Of Gremista, Gremista Road, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. House.
Bod Of Gremista, Gremista Road, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- lunar-cornice-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HU 464 431
- Coordinates
- 60.16996, -1.16481
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bod Of Gremista is a house located on Gremista Road in Lerwick, built around 1790. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a near-symmetrical rectangular plan and harled walls.
The east elevation, which is the principal facade, features a modern vertically-boarded timber door positioned to the left of centre, with regular fenestration in the flanking bays and on the first floor. The south gable has a single window on the left at the first floor. The north gable includes a modern vertically-boarded timber door that leads to a salt store, centered at the ground level, with single windows to the right at both the first floor and attic levels.
The west elevation, which is the rear, presents an asymmetrical three-bay design with windows at the first floor in the central and right bays, and smaller windows at the ground level flanking the center. The house features timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane windows for the principal openings and 4 and 8-pane windows elsewhere. The roof is made of stone slabs, pegged with a stone ridge, and has harled apex stacks that are coped and topped with circular cans.
The interior has been modernized and serves as a museum, with updates made in 1987.
Local climate
Bod Of Gremista, Gremista Road, Lerwick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 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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