Skeo (Symbister)

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Symbister Beach, on the far left the Skeo
View of the Pier House , on the right edge of the picture the Skeo with one of the ventilation slots

The Skeo of Symbister is a detached building on the beach of the capital of the Shetlands counting Island Whalsay . It is one of the few larger, commercially used skeos still in existence , a type of drywall construction that used to be widespread in the Shetlands and the Orkneys , in which food, in this case fish , was air- dried . The Skeo, built in the late 19th century , is a listed building in Category C and is therefore a listed building.

The rectangular building with a corrugated iron roof is made of granite : the main part of the outer walls consists of irregularly assembled rubble stones , at the corners there are ashlar stones . There are eight ventilation slots on each of the two long sides, arranged on two different levels. On the transverse side facing the sea there is a door with an overlying segment arch . The landside entrance area has a double wooden sliding door, which, like the plaster , which can only be found on this transverse side, is of more recent date.

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  1. ↑ Skeo , definition in Merriam-Webster , accessed July 2, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Description of the Skeos on the website of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) from Historic Environment Scotland , accessed on July 2, 2018 (English)

Coordinates: 60 ° 20 ′ 28 ″  N , 1 ° 1 ′ 31 ″  W.