Norway House, Main Street, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. Sail loft.
Norway House, Main Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- inner-beam-nettle
- 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
- Sail loft
- OS grid reference
- HU 399 393
- Coordinates
- 60.13699, -1.28242
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Norway House, located on Main Street in Scalloway, is an early 20th-century building that was originally a sail loft. It is two stories tall with an attic and has a layout of eight by two bays. The lower storey is harled, while the upper structure is timber-framed and clad in corrugated iron, situated on a site that slopes to the south.
On the south gable facing Main Street, there is a modern sliding door positioned to the right of centre at ground level, flanked by three-pane fixed lights on the left and two-pane fixed lights on the right. The first floor features bipartite windows on both sides, with a large window to the left and a smaller one to the right in the gablehead.
The west elevation, which faces Ladysmith Road, is near-symmetrical, with a narrow window located only on the outer right at ground level and a regularly-fenestrated upper floor. The north gable has corrugated iron cladding at the gablehead above a modernised harled wall.
At the first floor, there are six-pane windows with top hoppers, all having timber surrounds and cills. The roof is covered with fishscale pattern felt tiles and features a platform ridge.
Local climate
Norway House, 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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