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Latitude: 60.1802 / 60°10'48"N
Longitude: -1.2297 / 1°13'46"W
OS Eastings: 442833
OS Northings: 1144224
OS Grid: HU428442
Mapcode National: GBR R19T.Z30
Mapcode Global: XHD35.DDH1
Plus Code: 9CGW5QJC+34
Entry Name: Veensgarth House, Veensgarth
Listing Name: Veensgarth, Veensgarth House, Including Garden Wall and Outbuilding
Listing Date: 28 July 2000
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394687
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47311
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200394687
Location: Tingwall
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland Central
Parish: Tingwall
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Farmhouse
Mid 19th century. 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical gabled former farmhouse with full-width piend-roofed and gabled wing to rear and mono-pitch roofed outbuilding adjoining at SE corner. Harled rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone dressings.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical, gabled porch at ground in centre bay flanked by tripartite windows, regular fenestration at 1st floor.
N ELEVATION: single window at ground offset to right.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey wing parallel to main house, gabled to left and piend-roofed to right; small gabled porch adjoining; tall stacks. Single window to 1st floor of main house behind.
S ELEVATION: single windows to both floors offset to right.
Purple-grey slate roofs; stugged sandstone skew-copes and gablehead stacks to principal roof.
GARDEN WALL AND OUTBUILDING: random rubble wall enclosing garden to S with remains of small rubble outbuilding at SW corner.
Veensgarth is one of a number of farms established in the Tingwall Valley by Lerwick merchants during the 19th century, and is notable for the lowland form of the house and adjoining steading (see separate listing).
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