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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1017023
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017023
This is a typical example of a small laird's house, with its thick walls coated in harling. Here the harling has given the building a comfortable rounded appearance, as if wrapped in a blanket (colour photograph on p.33). It was renovated in 1978 as a visitor centre for Northmavine, and one room is furnished in the way that the original ' best' room would have appeared. The house is a rectangular block consisting of two storeys, with a gabled roof of slates and a chimney in each gable. An extension looking very much like a trading booth has been added to the south-east side. The buttresses flanking the entrance to the main house may have been needed to counteract the slope on which the house was built.
The Haa stands end-on to the shingle beach below, which would have been its main access point before roads were built.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Shetland’, (1997).
