Nina's Blog - Tuesday 10th March 2026

@ninalanyon It doesn't look very old - perhaps a new building on old piles. The replacements look as if galvanised-steel so I wonder how long they will last before rusting through. They might be stainless-steel.

Not sure if a boat-house as it seems to front onto a sort of patio or jetty rather than slipway. Maybe the club-house for a small sailing- or fishing- club? Or someone's private hytte?

@ArishMell Definitely not a hytte, not enough windows. But it could be that it was the original boat club building.

I think your suggestion that the new supports are stainless steel is probably right.

As for the age, it can be difficult to tell because the cladding, roof tiles, windows, might all be replaced several times in the lifetime of a building here. I had the cladding on my house replaced last summer with extra insulation and new triple glazed windows. So now it looks, at least from some angles, newer than buildings that I know are half its age. I know of several buildings in the village that didn't look much older than mine (early 1950s) but I've seen them in the process of having new boards fitted and underneath they are dressed solid logs.which suggests that they might well be fifty years older or even more.

@ninalanyon New walls,new roof, new windows..... Still the same shed!:)

Someone's obviously spending a lot of money on it though.

@ArishMell It's possible that it's a building of some minor historical significance I suppose. Or it is in use and the other option would be a equally expensive new building.

@ninalanyon It's porbably not very old, but might be on an older pier.

I've often been curious about buildings that have no obvious purpose!