Scalloway Museum, Main Street, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1996. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Scalloway Museum, Main Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- muffled-slate-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1996
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Scalloway Museum, Main Street, Scalloway, ZE1 0TR
- OS grid reference
- HU 403 393
- Coordinates
- 60.13712, -1.2753
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Scalloway Museum is a late 19th century building that was originally a pair of near-symmetrical end-of-terrace shops with a flat above. It is constructed from coursed dressed granite with stugged dressings and features chamfered arrises.
The south elevation facing Main Street has a central 2-leaf boarded door with a rectangular fanlight above, flanked by plate glass shop windows and shop doors in the outer bays, with the right-hand door being arched and blocked as a window. Each bay on the first floor has bipartite windows, with the outer bays featuring gabled stone dormerheads that break the eaves.
The side elevation is blank at ground level, with two windows displaced to the left on the first floor. The building has modern glazing throughout and a purple-grey slate roof. The roof includes skew-copes on the gables and dormerheads, which are finished at the eaves with corbelled and gabletted skewputts, along with coped stone gablehead stacks topped with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Scalloway Museum, Main Street, Scalloway sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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