Tangwick Haa
Lairds House (17th Century), Museum (20th Century)
Site Name Tangwick Haa
Classification Lairds House (17th Century), Museum (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Haa Of Tangwick; Tangwick House; Museum
Canmore ID 493
Site Number HU27NW 17
NGR HU 23243 77686
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/493
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Northmavine
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU27NW 17.00 HU 23243 77686
HU27NW 17.01 HU 23251 77668 Walled Garden
Publication Account (1997)
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).
