Post Office, North Roe is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997.

Post Office, North Roe

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
OS grid reference
HU 366 885
Coordinates
60.57894, -1.33247
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

South-Haa in North Roe is a pair of traditional houses built around 1900, featuring a symmetrical design with a single storey and attic, organized into three bays each. The southern building houses a post office, creating a near-symmetrical six-bay group. The exterior walls are harled and painted.

The east elevation, which is the principal façade, displays a six-bay arrangement divided into two symmetrical groups of three. The left group, which includes the post office, has a central 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with a 2-pane fanlight above it, along with shop windows on either side. The outer bays feature gabled dormers with gabletted and bracketed skewputts that break the eaves at the first floor. The right group mirrors this symmetry, featuring a gabled vertically-boarded timber porch with a window on the east side and a door on the south side in the central bay, along with regular fenestration in the flanking bays and matching gabled dormers in the outer bays.

On the south gable, there is a window located to the left at ground level, and a window is centered in the end wall of a lean-to that extends to the left. The north gable features a lean-to addition with a door and window on the east and north sides respectively, along with a single attic window to the right and a large single-flue wallhead stack at the skew of the rear lean-to.

The windows on the principal and side elevations are 4-pane timber sash and case, while the shop windows, porch, and north lean-to have 4-pane timber fixed-lights. The roof is covered with grey slate, and it includes profiled cast-iron gutters with decorative brackets, along with cast-iron downpipes that feature hoppers and decorative brackets. The harled apex stacks have concrete copes and circular cans on the principal gables and party wall, with the south stack corbelled out at the base.

Local climate

Post Office, 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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