Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey 6-bay former trading booth and worker?s accommodation of rectangular plan on shore-front site. Harl-pointed rubble walls.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical 6-bay elevation (grouped 3-3); regular fenestration in bays of left group; right group, modern porch projecting at ground in bay to left with door (inserted between bays) immediately to right, regular fenestration in bays to right and at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: vertically-boarded timber door at ground to right with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber loading door at floor above; harled store with tarred roof and corrugated iron W gable advanced at left; vertically-boarded timber doors centred in W gable and to outer right at S elevation.

E AND N ELEVATIONS: blank.

Single cast-iron 12-pane fixed-light surviving at 1st floor in bay to outer right. Mono-pitch tarred roof (now collapsed) with harled square stack at centre.

WALL: harled wall with doorway forming short link from SE corner to house at E.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Seafield and Seafield Pier (see separate listings). Seafield was probably built by Charles Ogilvy, owner of the Shetland Banking Company, and bears the same name as his villa to the south of Lerwick. Seafield was the Yell base of Hay & Ogilvy of Lerwick, which collapsed in 1842 due to decline in the herring boom and damage to their fishing fleet in a gale. The collapse resulted in the establishment of Hay & Co in 1844. The Sheriff Court Papers of that year refer to the building as having a "tarred canvas roof". The Rooms O?Seafield is an unusual combination of booth and accommodation, and is essential part of this historic group on the shorefront opposite Mid Yell.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771749

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)