Valsgarth, Papil, Unst

19th century. Croft comprising single storey and attic 3-bay house with gabled glazed timber porch centred on S elevation and long single range of gabled outbuildings extending E from E gable. Harled walls to house, random rubble walls to outbuildings.

HOUSE: symmetrical, porch in centre bay comprising cement-rendered base with timber mullioned and transomed glazing to front and sides; timber entrance door to W side with panelled lower and glazed upper; decorative timber bargeboards and timber finial to tarred pitched roof. Low 9-pane hoppered timber windows in flanking bays. Small square attic window to left in W gable; small lean-to addition to rear.

Purple-grey slate roof with cast-iron gutters and downpipes, cement-rendered ridge and wide skew copes; harled single-flue gablehead stacks with stone copes and circular cans.

OUTBUILDINGS: blank rubble walls with vertically-boarded timber door to outer right of S elevation; lower gabled barn to E gable, roofless (1997), with vertically-boarded timber door to left in S elevation. Shallow-pitched tarred roof with skylights and felted concrete skew-copes.