Fish-Curing Station, Outvoe is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Fish-curing station.
Fish-Curing Station, Outvoe
- WRENN ID
- swift-gravel-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Fish-curing station
- OS grid reference
- HU 398 154
- Coordinates
- 59.92235, -1.28857
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Fish-Curing Station at Outvoe is an early 19th century structure consisting of two rectangular, gabled buildings facing the shore. The main building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay design, with a single-storey store to the east. The walls are made of harl-pointed rubble, featuring dressed sandstone rubble for decoration.
The main building has a central entrance door in the middle bay, with regular windows in the flanking bays. There is also a door located at the rear elevation, as well as a door and window in the right bay of the east gable, and a single window in the right bay of the west gable.
The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and includes three skylights, along with a clay tile ridge. At the apex, there are coped sandstone rubble stacks with circular flues.
The store features a vertically-boarded timber door at the center of the south elevation. It has a corrugated-iron roof topped with a timber louvered ridge ventilator.
Local climate
Fish-Curing Station, Outvoe sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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