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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642301
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642301
HU36NW 9.00 34513 66803
HU36NW 9.01 34750 66971 Dovecot
(HU 3452 6680 ) Busta (T.I.)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
Busta House, a mansion, dates mainly from 1714. In addition to an oblong main block running east and west, it includes a central stair-wing, the latter extending southwards to the NE corner of a parallel oblong block of two storeys which is probably older.
This southermost part is of harled rubble with freestone dressings, the gables being crow- stepped, but is otherwise featureless.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.
Generally as described by RCAHM. The southernmost part was built around 1600 by merchants of the Hanseatic League (Information supplied by Major Sir Basil Neven-Spence, Busta House).
Visited by OS (WDJ) 3 June 1968.
