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Latitude: 59.9129 / 59°54'46"N
Longitude: -1.2861 / 1°17'10"W
OS Eastings: 440023
OS Northings: 1114423
OS Grid: HU400144
Mapcode National: GBR R25J.PCN
Mapcode Global: XHD4H.N3JF
Plus Code: 9CFWWP77+5H
Entry Name: West Mill, Southvoe Water Mills, Burn Of Wiltrow, Southvoe
Listing Name: Southvoe, Burn of Wiltrow, Southvoe Water Mills, Including Footbridges
Listing Date: 18 October 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 336850
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5414
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Southvoe, Burn Of Wiltrow, Norse Mill
ID on this website: 200336850
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
West mill: roofless, upper house converted to lamb house, footbridge constructed from two large irregular slabs adjacent to west.
Centre mill: ruinous, partial survival of north gable with outlet at lower house surviving.
North mill: slab footbridge to west, adjacent to sluice gate feeding timber lade, and shute to tirl in lower house; vertically-boarded timber door in east gable, 'taekket' (straw thatched) roof, netted and with linkstanes (weights).
Associated with crofting settlement of Southvoe (now Shetland Crofthouse Museum, see separate listing LB5413).
It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.
Listed building record revised in 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.
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