Anderson's Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1996. Shop with residence above.

Anderson's Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway

WRENN ID
burning-lead-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 May 1996
Type
Shop with residence above
OS grid reference
HU 403 394
Coordinates
60.13721, -1.27584
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Anderson's Buildings is an early 19th-century, two-storey, four-bay terraced shop with a flat above, located on Main Street in Scalloway. The building features lined render with painted ashlar dressings and an eaves course.

The south elevation facing Main Street is asymmetrical, with a door positioned in the bay to the left of centre and shop windows in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration. The north elevation at the rear has its ground floor obscured by a single-storey extension.

The south elevation includes 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the first floor at the rear has 4-pane windows. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate, and there are granite mutual stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

Anderson's Buildings, 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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