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Latitude: 60.3041 / 60°18'14"N
Longitude: -1.3539 / 1°21'14"W
OS Eastings: 435805
OS Northings: 1157954
OS Grid: HU358579
Mapcode National: GBR R10H.N9J
Mapcode Global: XHD2J.S80J
Entry Name: East Burra Firth,broch,Aith Voe
Scheduled Date: 19 June 1934
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2067
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Sandsting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
Later 18th century. 3-storey, 6-bay residential and commercial building with shops to ground separated by central pend. Neatly squared and coursed granite rubble with sandstone dressings. Large, segmental-arched opening above pend, now infilled with single window. Timber fascia to shopfront at 5th and 6th bays with panelled stall risers, fixed-pane glazing, corniced frieze flanked by panelled die blocks. Cast-iron gate to pend.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors; non-traditional glazing at ground floor shops to left. Slated steeply pitched roof with large velux windows (replacing tripartite, canted dormers); red brick ridge stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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