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Smithfield
Croft (19th Century)
Site Name Smithfield
Classification Croft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Huxter, Smithfield Croft Including Kailyard Wall
Canmore ID 179705
Site Number HU15NE 37
NGR HU 17720 57396
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/179705
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Small farm group comprising single storey and attic 2-bay farmhouse with principal elevation to N, single storey barns adjoining E gable and S (rear) elevation forming L-plan, further barn aligning E side of S barn. Harled rubble walls to house, drystone walls to barns. Stone slab roof to house; cement-rendered skew-copes, harled gablehead stacks, E stack stone-coped, W stack concrete-coped with circular cans. KAILYARD WALL: drystone rubble wall enclosing rectangular kailyard to S and E.
A now rare example of a small farmhouse with its interior and outbuildings still surviving. (Historic Scotland)
Field Visit (23 April 2015)
HU 17721 57390 A small group of early 19th century farm buildings, including one listed as being a single storey barn with ‘thatched roof with linkstanes surviving’ to the south (rear) of the main farmhouse. The entire group of buildings are in a ruinous condition and have been on the Buildings at Risk (BAR) Register since 2006 (BAR reference number 3066), at which time it was noted that ‘the thatched roof of the rear barn [has] been lost’. BAR visits in 2010 and 2014 record the increasing decline of the condition of the buildings. The listing description for these buildings should be updated accordingly.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 23 April 2015, survey no.198
