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Latitude: 60.4772 / 60°28'38"N
Longitude: -1.6117 / 1°36'42"W
OS Eastings: 421445
OS Northings: 1177120
OS Grid: HU214771
Mapcode National: GBR Q1C1.J8P
Mapcode Global: XHD1G.DXHC
Plus Code: 9CGWF9GQ+V8
Entry Name: Fishing Station, Stenness
Listing Name: Stenness, Stenness Fishing Station Bod
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391150
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44565
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391150
Location: Northmaven
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland North
Parish: Northmaven
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Fishing station
19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay gabled former trading booth, now roofless. Red sandstone and granite rubble walls. Doorway at ground centring W (principal) elevation; blank bay to left; small window at ground in bay to right and larger window above.
Small window to left in gablehead of N elevation; square rubble- infilled vent centred at ground floor level, window at 1st floor to left. Internal fireplaces centred in gables at upper floor, rubble apex stacks with stone copes.
This building is situated at the centre of a rocky beach and flanked by the remains of fishing lodges used during the summer haaf-fishing by men fishing for their landlords. They fished from sixerns (six-oared, six-man, open boats) and the old men and boys washed, salted, and dried the catch on the stony beach. The lodges were occupied from May and often partly dismantled at the end of the season. Although the bod is now a roofless ruin, it is the only part of the fishing station with wallheads and gables surviving intact.
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