Lee Of Houlland
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Kale Yard(S) (19th Century)-(20th Century), Planticrub (Period Unassigned)(Possible), School (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lee Of Houlland
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Kale Yard(S) (19th Century)-(20th Century), Planticrub (Period Unassigned)(Possible), School (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 190212
Site Number HU24NE 51
NGR HU 2785 4992
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/190212
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU24NE 51 2785 4992
A farmstead comprising one unroofed building of two compartments, two roofed buildings, one unroofed structure and four enclosures, a head-dyke, a roofed School with an attached enclosure and a field are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney & Shetland (Shetland) 1882, sheet xlvii). One unroofed building, one partially roofed building, one roofed School, four enclosures, the head-dyke and the field are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 24 May 2001
Field Visit (10 June 2010)
The remains of this small farmstead comprise a roofless range set on the S side of a small stone-walled rectangular enclosure. The range, which runs the entire length of the enclosure, contains a cottage at its centre and an outshot to either side. The cottage measures 9.3m from E to W by 5.4m transversely over walls standing to gable height. There is a central doorway (and porch) and flanking windows in the S side and ground-floor fireplaces at both ends. The E outshot has a door and two blocked windows in its S side, another doorway on the N, and a fireplace in the W end. The W outshot has a doorway and a window in its S side and a window in its W gable.
Adjacent to the E side of the range and garden is another, larger, enclosure, measuring about 20m square. A pile of rubble close to the centre of its W side may represent the remains of a building.
The farmstead is situated within a plot of ground bounded by the shoreline of Sutta Voe on the S and by a drystone head-dyke on the W, N and E, though the NE corner has been lost to road improvements. Within this area of ground there is a probable kale yard (HU 27893 49886), clearance cairns and vestiges of old walls and fence-lines. Attached to the inside face of the head-dyke on the N is a small rectangular enclosure (HU 27828 49969) with an entrance in its W end. Possibly a planticrub, it may be associated with the probable kale yard (HU 27817 49985) situated on the other side of the dyke.
The school (HU 27938 49897), which has been supplanted onto the SE corner of the area defined by the head-dyke, was not recorded on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (GB) 10 June 2010.
