Fisherman's Arms, Castle Street, Scalloway is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. Public house.
Fisherman's Arms, Castle Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- quiet-span-magpie
- 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
- Public house
- OS grid reference
- HU 404 391
- Coordinates
- 60.13524, -1.27433
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Fisherman's Arms is a public house located on Castle Street in Scalloway, built around 1840. It is a two-storey building with seven bays. The front elevation is cement-rendered and lined, while the sides and rear are constructed from harl-pointed rubble.
The principal elevation is asymmetrical, with a grouping of four bays on the left and three on the right. The left side features a symmetrical arrangement with doors in the central bays, although the left door has been infilled. The flanking bays and the first floor have regular window placements. On the right side, there is a door in the central bay with windows in the flanking bays, and again, regular fenestration at the first floor. The gables on the north and south sides are blank.
At the rear, there are modern flat-roofed additions to the left of center and a single-storey rubble wing with a mono-pitch roof on the outer right, which includes windows at the first floor. The building has modern glazing throughout. The roof is made of purple-grey slate and features sandstone ashlar skew-copes, which are finished at the eaves with scrolled skewputts. The gablehead stacks are made of stugged sandstone and are capped with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Fisherman's Arms, Castle 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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