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Latitude: 60.2572 / 60°15'26"N
Longitude: -1.4369 / 1°26'12"W
OS Eastings: 431264
OS Northings: 1152688
OS Grid: HU312526
Mapcode National: GBR Q1TM.D9Q
Mapcode Global: XHD2P.PFCZ
Plus Code: 9CGW7H47+V6
Entry Name: Park Hall
Listing Name: Bixter, Park Hall, Including Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391153
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44567
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391153
Location: Sandsting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Parish: Sandsting
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1900. 2-storey, 3-bay classical laird's house of poured concrete construction; rectangular plan, with single storey 3-bay wing to E. Base course, band course at 1st floor, cornice and quatrefoil-pierced balustrade at eaves of front and side elevations. Projecting cills to windows.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay elevation to left; entrance door with 2-pane fanlight at ground in centre bay; 3-light canted bay windows at ground in flanking bays; regular fenestration at 1st floor; shallow pediment over centre bay with parapets flanking. Near symmetrical 3-bay wing at right; door with 2-pane fanlight at centre, windows in flanking bays, parapet sections at corners and centred with gablet over door.
W ELEVATION: windows at ground and 1st floor to outer left only.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: tall round-arched stair window centring elevation; blank to right, single window at 1st floor adjacent to left, and door to outer left at ground.
E ELEVATION: 2 windows to right in E elevation of service wing advanced at ground; windows to outer right and left at 1st floor in principal elevation behind.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Square 4-flue stack rising at centre of principal block, corniced with variety of cans; 2-flue wallhead stack with octagonal cans at NW corner; 2-flue stack rising at centre of service wing.
GATES AND GATEPIERS: symmetrically disposed drives, curving away to E and W from house, terminated to S at road by cement-rendered concrete gates comprising stop-chamfered shafts with bases and caps surmounted by ball finials; remains of wrought-iron gate to W.
Currently ruinous (1996). Built by a local doctor, Park Hall is an example of the early 20th century practice in Shetland for building in in-situ concrete. A photograph of it under construction (in which shuttering can still be seen) shows a large Moorish temple in the garden which actually functioned as the septic tank.
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