Mowat And Co, Anderson's Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1996. Shop.
Mowat And Co, Anderson's Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- steep-lead-finch
- 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
- Shop
- OS grid reference
- HU 403 394
- Coordinates
- 60.13719, -1.2757
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mowat and Co is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay terraced shop located on Main Street in Scalloway. The building features a symmetrical design with lined render and painted ashlar dressings, along with an eaves course.
The south elevation facing Main Street is symmetrical, showcasing a vertically-boarded timber door with a rectangular fanlight above it in the center bay. There are shop windows in the flanking bays, and a former door has been infilled as a window on the outer left. 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 has four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear features four-pane windows on the first floor. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and includes a mutual skew-cope on the right, along with granite mutual stacks topped with circular cans.
Local climate
Mowat And Co, 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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