The Bulwark, New Street, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. Fishing booth.
The Bulwark, New Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- sacred-spire-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 2000
- Type
- Fishing booth
- OS grid reference
- HU 403 392
- Coordinates
- 60.13582, -1.27531
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bulwark, located on New Street in Scalloway, is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical former fishing booth. The building features harl-pointed random rubble walls. The principal elevation faces west and is centered by a vertically-boarded timber door, with windows in the flanking bays and in the outer bays at the first floor. The lower floor is concealed on the rear elevation, which is also centered by a vertically-boarded timber door. There is a vertically boarded timber door at the upper level in the north gable.
The windows are made of plate glass and are timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has stone skew-copes. The gablehead stacks are made of stone and are coped, featuring both circular and octagonal cans.
Local climate
The Bulwark, New 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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