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Latitude: 60.3048 / 60°18'17"N
Longitude: -1.6644 / 1°39'51"W
OS Eastings: 418644
OS Northings: 1157898
OS Grid: HU186578
Mapcode National: GBR Q17H.Q2N
Mapcode Global: XHBVN.Q811
Plus Code: 9CGW883P+W6
Entry Name: North House, Melby
Listing Name: Melby, North House, Including Walls
Listing Date: 18 October 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 352716
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18630
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200352716
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Parish: Walls And Sandness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
18th century. Former laird's house comprising 3-bay 2-storey house single storey 10-bay steading (aligned with house) adjoining N gable. Harled walls to house, with stugged sandstone ashlar margins to door and windows; harl-pointed rubble walls to steading. 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with glazed uppers centred at ground in principal (E) elevation; windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration at 1st floor. 2-bay S gable with single window at 1st floor in bay to right. 10-bay E elevation to steading with variety of doors and windows.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to house; purple-grey slate roof with ashlar skew-copes and bracketted skewputts; harled gablehead stacks, coped with circular cans. Purple-grey slate roof to steading, piended at N end, single-flue ridge stack with circular can.
WALLS: random rubble walls enclosing ground to S and W of house.
It is thought that North House preceded Melby as the seat of the Scotts, when John Scott of Gibliston (Fife) inherited Melby, Vaila, and Foula through his mother Grizel Mitchell in 1736.
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