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Latitude: 60.1475 / 60°8'50"N
Longitude: -1.1142 / 1°6'50"W
OS Eastings: 449290
OS Northings: 1140658
OS Grid: HU492406
Mapcode National: GBR R1LX.J43
Mapcode Global: XHFB4.X67M
Plus Code: 9CGW4VWP+X8
Entry Name: Mizpah House, Bressay
Listing Name: Mizpah House, Including Outbuildings, Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate
Listing Date: 18 October 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 337367
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5878
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200337367
Location: Bressay
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Lerwick North
Parish: Bressay
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Manse
1819. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical T-plan former Manse with flanking gabled outbuildings. Harled walls. Margined windows with projecting cills.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical single storey porch projecting in centre bay; round-arched window and entrance door in W and N elevations respectively; windows in flanking bays, regular fenestration at 1st floor.
N ELEVATION: 2-bay gable, single window at attic in bay to left, blank N elevation of rear wing recessed at left with lean-to in re-entrant angle.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey wing projecting at centre with single window at 2nd floor in E gable, and lean-to in re-entrant angle at right.
S ELEVATION: 2-bay gable with single window at attic in bay to right; 3-bay rear wing elevation recessed at right with gabled and slated porch projecting to left of centre.
Modern glazing throughout; grey tile roof with ashlar skew copes. Stugged sandstone 3-flue apex stacks to each gable, coped, with circular cans.
OUTBUILDINGS: rectangular single storey rubble outbuildings flanking house with gables to E and W, linked to house by rubble screen walls with infilled doorways; raised wallhead to N screen wall.
BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE: drystone wall enclosing garden to W; wallhead at centre of W side lowered accommodating finialled iron railings and gate.
Similar in form to Maryfield House, Mizpah is a good example of an early 19th century Shetland Manse, and a prominent feature of the view across Bressay Sound from southern Lerwick.
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