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Latitude: 60.0343 / 60°2'3"N
Longitude: -1.2306 / 1°13'50"W
OS Eastings: 442971
OS Northings: 1127977
OS Grid: HU429279
Mapcode National: GBR R296.YL2
Mapcode Global: XHD3Y.D13V
Plus Code: 9CGW2QM9+PQ
Entry Name: Mail Church
Listing Name: Mail Kirk and Manse
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391123
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44544
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391123
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building
Earlier 19th century. Former manse with church to W, grouped on south-facing shore-front site.
KIRK: 3-bay hall church with porches to E gable and S elevation. Harled walls. Segmental-arched windows.
N ELEVATION: symmetrical, with regular fenestration.
E GABLE: projecting porch with window in gable and vertically-boarded timber door in N side.
S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled entrance porch (with window) to right of centre; regular fenestration in 2 bays at left.
W GABLE: single window to right of centre.
4-pane timber fixed-lights, hoppered to W porch. Purple-grey slate pitched roofs with concrete skew copes to hall and porches. Shouldered apex stack to porch gable with cope and octagonal can.
MANSE: 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house. Cement-rendered walls and margined windows with projecting cills; all painted.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, modern conservatory projecting at ground in centre bay; windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration at 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: single storey garage with mono-pitch roof projecting at ground. blank above.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey tower advanced at centre bay, regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors. Parapetted garage elevation with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors extending to right.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate piended roof. Pair of stone-coped ridge stacks with octagonal cans.
The former church and manse form a prominent group at the waterside on the main route north from Sumburgh.
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