Prince Olav's Slipway, Westshore Harbour, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. Slipway, fishing booth. 2 related planning applications.

Prince Olav's Slipway, Westshore Harbour, Scalloway

WRENN ID
graven-courtyard-pearl
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
Slipway, fishing booth
Address
Prince Olav's Slipway, Westshore Harbour, Scalloway, ZE1 0XJ
OS grid reference
HU 400 393
Coordinates
60.13685, -1.28119
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Prince Olav's Slipway is an early 19th-century building that has undergone alterations around 1940. It is a single-storey structure with a lower floor that was originally a fishing booth, which has since been converted into a boatyard that includes a slipway. The south wall and gables are constructed of harl-pointed rubble, while the north elevation is rendered and painted.

The north elevation, facing Main Street, is asymmetrical with the lower floor hidden below road level. To the left of the center, there is a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door, and to the right, a wide service door. On the outer left, there is an 8-pane hoppered timber window, and on the outer right, a 9-pane fixed light window.

The east gable is blank with no openings. The south elevation, which faces the sea, is also asymmetrical and features a four-bay arrangement (grouped 1-2-1). It has an irregular arrangement of windows and vertically-boarded timber doors on the lower floor, with 3-pane timber fixed lights in each bay on the upper floor.

The west gable is blank except for a single door on the right at the lower floor. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate, and the gablehead stacks are cement-rendered with concrete copes and circular cans, flanked by concrete skew-copes.

Local climate

Prince Olav's Slipway, Westshore Harbour, 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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