Post Office, 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.
Post Office, Anderson's Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- fallow-merlon-jet
- 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
- 60.13717, -1.27548
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office, located in Anderson's Buildings on Main Street in Scalloway, is an early 19th-century, asymmetrical, two-storey, five-bay terraced shop with a flat above. The exterior features lined render with painted ashlar dressings and an eaves course.
On the south elevation facing Main Street, the building has an asymmetrical design with a three-bay shop on the right. The central bay contains a door, while the outer bays feature windows on both the ground and first floors. To the left, there is a keystoned segmental-arched former pend opening with a window above in the penultimate bay. The outer left bay has a door with a rectangular fanlight at ground level.
The north elevation at the rear includes a flat-roofed rubble extension. The building has modern glazing throughout, a purple-grey slate roof, and a granite mutual stack with circular cans on the west side.
Local climate
Post Office, 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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