Methodist Church, North Roe is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Church. 1 related planning application.

Methodist Church, North Roe

WRENN ID
guardian-newel-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Church
Address
Methodist Church, North Roe, ZE2 9RY
OS grid reference
HU 366 886
Coordinates
60.57955, -1.33277
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Methodist Church in North Roe, built in 1878, is a mission chapel and house that features a single storey and attic. The structure consists of a three-bay house on the south side and a three-bay chapel on the north side, creating an asymmetrical six-bay principal elevation facing east. The walls are harled with droved ashlar margins around the openings and projecting cills at the windows.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with a grouped three-three bay arrangement. The penultimate bay on the left contains a vertically-boarded entrance door with a two-pane fanlight leading into the house, with regular fenestration in the flanking bays. To the right of the center, there is a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber entrance door with a two-pane fanlight for the chapel, accompanied by regular fenestration in the bays to the right.

The north gable presents a symmetrical two-bay elevation with tall windows in each bay that extend into the gablehead. At the apex, there is a gabled painted ashlar bellcote housing a bell in a pointed-arched opening. The south gable features a single attic window on the left.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, with a 12-pane lying-pane pattern for both the house and chapel on the principal elevation, a 16-pane lying-pane pattern on the north gable, and a 4-pane pattern on the south gable. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and includes cast-iron gutters and downpipes, skew copes on the end gables and party wall, and harled apex stacks with copes, with the south stack featuring a cavetto-moulded design and circular cans.

At the road, there is a cement-rendered and painted dwarf wall, which is terminated at both ends by square piers topped with pyramidal caps. The wall is adorned with hooped railings and gates.

Local climate

Methodist Church, North Roe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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