Shetland, Mainland, Northmavine Manse And Steading
Farmstead (18th Century), Manse (18th Century)
Site Name Shetland, Mainland, Northmavine Manse And Steading
Classification Farmstead (18th Century), Manse (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hillswick
Canmore ID 475
Site Number HU27NE 22
NGR HU 28139 76785
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/475
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Northmavine
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU27NE 22 28149 76812
For (associated) parish church and churchyard (HU 28302 77124), see HU27NE 21.
This manse, comprising a formal two and a half storey whitewashed T-plan building with out-house and two farm buildings set at right angles to the SE corner of the large walled garden, is situated on the edge of Hillswick at East Ayre Strand. The farm buildings are low single storey ranges of random rubble construction. There is fragmentary evidence for a third range to the E, which would have made this originally a small U-plan steading. There is also a formal walled garden on the NE.
Information from RCAHMS (AD) 7 July 2004.
This site was visited as part of the RCAHMS Scottish Farm Buildings Survey on 11 October 1994.
Information from RCAHMS (ACD) 15 January 2008; NMRS MS2560/338
