Methodist Manse, Walls is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Manse. 2 related planning applications.

Methodist Manse, Walls

WRENN ID
pale-postern-grove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Manse
Address
Methodist Manse, Walls, ZE2 9PF
OS grid reference
HU 243 496
Coordinates
60.23035, -1.56193
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Methodist Manse in Walls is a later 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical building with a rear wing that forms an L-plan. The exterior features harl-pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone dressings.

On the southwest, or principal elevation, the facade is symmetrical with a single-storey gabled porch that projects from the central bay. There are windows in the flanking bays, and the first floor has regular fenestration.

The southeast gable is blank, while the rear elevation includes a piend-roofed wing that advances in the bay to the right. This side also has regular fenestration in the bays to the left.

A modern lean-to addition is present on the northwest gable. The building has modern glazing throughout, and the roof is covered with modern grey tiles, featuring ashlar skew-copes and bracketed skewputts. The gablehead stacks are made of stugged sandstone, topped with copes and circular cans.

Local climate

Methodist Manse, Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 98% 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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