Bank 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. Former bank.
Bank Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway
- WRENN ID
- turning-gargoyle-azure
- 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
- Former bank
- Address
- Bank Buildings, Main Street, Scalloway, ZE1 0TR
- OS grid reference
- HU 402 394
- Coordinates
- 60.13728, -1.27631
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bank Buildings on Main Street in Scalloway is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay former bank that underwent alterations in the late 19th century. The building features harled walls with painted ashlar dressings and an eaves course.
The south elevation facing Main Street is symmetrical, showcasing a central four-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight above it. On either side of the door are bipartite windows with chamfered arrises, and the first floor has regular fenestration.
At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to addition that is also harled and has a felted roof. The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows on the ground floor, while the first floor and rear elevation feature four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has a mutual concrete skew-cope on the right, along with granite mutual stacks topped with circular cans.
Local climate
Bank 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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