Mail Church is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997.
Mail Church
- WRENN ID
- veiled-gateway-clover
- 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 429 279
- Coordinates
- 60.03432, -1.23062
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse at Mail Church is an earlier 19th-century building that served as a former manse, located on a south-facing shore-front site alongside the church to the west.
The church features a three-bay hall design with porches on the east gable and south elevation. Its walls are harled, and it has segmental-arched windows. The north elevation is symmetrical, displaying regular window placement. The east gable includes a projecting porch with a window and a vertically-boarded timber door on the north side. The south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a gabled entrance porch with a window to the right of center, while the left side has regular fenestration in two bays. The west gable has a single window positioned to the right of center. The windows consist of four-pane timber fixed-lights, which are hoppered in the west porch. The roofs are covered with purple-grey slate, pitched with concrete skew copes on both the hall and porches, and there is a shouldered apex stack on the porch gable with a cope and octagonal can.
The manse itself is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house with cement-rendered walls and margined windows that have projecting sills, all painted. The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical, featuring a modern conservatory that projects at ground level in the center bay, with windows in the flanking bays and regular fenestration on the first floor. The east elevation includes a single-storey garage with a mono-pitch roof that projects at ground level, with a blank wall above. The north (rear) elevation has a two-storey tower that is advanced at the center bay, with regular fenestration on both the ground and first floors. The garage elevation is parapetted and features two-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors extending to the right. The windows throughout the manse are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is also covered with purple-grey slate and has a piended design, with a pair of stone-coped ridge stacks topped with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Mail Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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