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Walled Garden, Manse, Sandwick

A Category B Listed Building in Shetland South, Shetland Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 59.9992 / 59°59'57"N

Longitude: -1.2302 / 1°13'48"W

OS Eastings: 443036

OS Northings: 1124068

OS Grid: HU430240

Mapcode National: GBR R299.QXX

Mapcode Global: XHD3Y.DX7T

Plus Code: 9CFWXQX9+MW

Entry Name: Walled Garden, Manse, Sandwick

Listing Name: Sandwick Manse, Including Outbuildings, Boundary and Garden Walls and Summerhouse

Listing Date: 18 October 1977

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 336894

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5443

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200336894

Location: Dunrossness

County: Shetland Islands

Electoral Ward: Shetland South

Parish: Dunrossness

Traditional County: Shetland

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Description

John Davidson and Thomas Macfarlane, 1830. Single storey, 5-bay symmetrical 'Parliamentary' Manse of H-plan. Harled walls with droved ashlar dressings margins. Partially exposed flagstone rubble base course.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern timber door in centre bay, regular fenestration in flanking bays, and in advanced outer bays.

S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical 3-bay elevation with regular fenestration in centre and left bays; blank in bay at right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: single window to right of centre, elevation advanced at right and left, later lean-to additions to elevation at left and in re-entrant angle at right.

Modern glazing throughout. Purple-grey slate piended roof with overhanging timber eaves and clay tile ridge. 2 square harled ridge stacks with moulded copes and circular cans.

OUTBUILDINGS: pair of harled, rectangular gabled outbuildings flanking W garden; stvne dated 1894 built into E gable of S building; vertically-boarded timber doors.

BOUNDARY WALLS: flagstone rubble walls to N and S of house, and to road connecting outbuildings and enclosing yard to N. Dwarf wall surmounted by modern concrete cope and railing to E of house, rubble wall enclosing garden to E; cement-rendered gable of former summerhouse surviving at centre of E wall.

Statement of Interest

Davidson and Macfarlane's design, which matches that of the manse at Quarff, closely resembles Thomas Telford?s manses built with the 42 standard T-plan churches provided by an Act of Parliament of 1823 to meet the demand for places of worship. Loss of the original glazing and entrance door has been detrimental to this building's subtly sophisticated design. Reinstatement of these details, and replacement of the overscaled railings to the E would result in a building of calibre.

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