Haa Of Houss, Houss, East Burra is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. House. 4 related planning applications.

Haa Of Houss, Houss, East Burra

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 July 2000
Type
House
Address
Haa Of Houss, Houss, East Burra, ZE2 9LE
OS grid reference
HU 376 311
Coordinates
60.06294, -1.32589
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Haa Of Houss is an early to earlier 19th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay symmetrical merchant laird's house, which is now a roofless shell. The building features random rubble walls with polished and droved sandstone ashlar dressings. The north gable is blank, while the south gable is mostly collapsed, although window dressing survives on the left side at the first floor. There is a stone cope and a circular can on the surviving stack at the north gablehead. A tall stair window is located at an intermediate height, centring the rear (east) elevation, and there is a door at ground level in the bay to the right.

Adjacent to the house is an outbuilding, which is a gabled, windowless structure to the north. It has random rubble walls and a vertically-boarded timber door centred on the south elevation, topped with a shallow-pitched felt roof that includes skylights.

Local climate

Haa Of Houss, Houss, East Burra sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 99% 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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