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Latitude: 59.9991 / 59°59'56"N
Longitude: -1.2299 / 1°13'47"W
OS Eastings: 443058
OS Northings: 1124058
OS Grid: HU430240
Mapcode National: GBR R299.R3Q
Mapcode Global: XHD3Y.DXDW
Plus Code: 9CFWXQXC+J3
Entry Name: Summerhouse, 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: 336895
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5443
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200336895
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Summer house
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.
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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