Swinister Old Haa, Swinister is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Laird's house.
Swinister Old Haa, Swinister
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pier-yarrow
- 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
- Laird's house
- OS grid reference
- HU 449 725
- Coordinates
- 60.43468, -1.18494
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Swinister Old Haa is a late 18th century, single storey and attic, three-bay symmetrical laird's house with harl-pointed rubble walls.
The east elevation is symmetrical, featuring a centrally located door at ground level, flanked by windows, and a high blank wallhead above. The west elevation has a small window centered at ground level with a door adjacent to the left and a high blank wallhead above.
The house has a grey slate roof with skylights in the attic and stone copes on substantial harled apex stacks and skews. The interior was not visible during the last inspection in 1996. The haa is enclosed by a random rubble wall, which is lower with a coping on the east side.
Local climate
Swinister Old Haa, Swinister sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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, 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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