Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643361

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU57NW 1 52007 79491.

(HU 5201 7951) Old Hall of Brough (LB).

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

A featureless, rectangular harled building, 50' 6" long by 21' 6" broad externally. The gables are crow-stepped and each of the lateral walls has at sometime been strengthened by the addition of two heavy buttresses. The major axis lies N-S.

On the west, until they are interrupted by the roadway, the side walls of the courtyard can still be seen projecting from the gables with which they are in alignment. The surviving length of the south wall includes the original gateway which bears an armorial panel with the date 1672 - presumably that of the completion of the Hall - and the initials 'R.T.' for Robert Tyrie.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.

A 17th century house, still occupied, of no particular significance, as described by the RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (NKB), 11 May 1969.