Old Haa Of Scalloway, New Street, Scalloway is a Grade A listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 November 1974. House, flats. 1 related planning application.

Old Haa Of Scalloway, New Street, Scalloway

WRENN ID
winter-cobalt-hawk
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 November 1974
Type
House, flats
Address
Old Haa Of Scalloway, New Street, Scalloway, ZE1 0TQ
OS grid reference
HU 403 393
Coordinates
60.13687, -1.27491
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Haa of Scalloway, built around 1750 and later altered, is a three-storey, five-bay symmetrical former laird's house that has been converted into flats. The building features harl-pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone ashlar margins and dressings.

The principal elevation is a symmetrical five-bay arrangement, with a central doorpiece that has a cornice and a lugged architrave, topped by a carved armorial panel. The flanking bays contain margined windows, and the upper floors are regularly fenestrated.

On the south gable, there are two bays with windows on the first and second floors, although the bay on the right is blind. The east (rear) elevation has windows on each floor flanking the center, with a door located at the ground level on the outer right. The north gable also features two bays with windows on the first and second floors in the right bay.

The building has replacement four-pane timber sash and case windows and a purple-grey slate roof with stugged ashlar skew-copes. The gablehead stacks are made of rubble with stone copes and circular cans.

Boundary walls include a random rubble garden wall to the south and a cement-rendered crenellated wall to the east. A double staircase with stugged squared and snecked sandstone parapets rises from the street to the entrance level.

Local climate

Old Haa Of Scalloway, New 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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