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Latitude: 60.5795 / 60°34'46"N
Longitude: -1.3327 / 1°19'57"W
OS Eastings: 436666
OS Northings: 1188637
OS Grid: HU366886
Mapcode National: GBR R02S.601
Mapcode Global: XHD16.1BRX
Plus Code: 9CGWHMH8+RW
Entry Name: Methodist Church, North Roe
Listing Name: North Roe Methodist Church, Including Railings
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391142
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44558
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391142
Location: Northmaven
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland North
Parish: Northmaven
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building
1878. Mission chapel and house comprising single storey and attic 3-bay house to S, and single storey 3-bay chapel to N giving 6-bay asymmetrical principal elevation to E. Harled walls with droved ashlar margins to openings and projecting cills at windows.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical 6-bay elevation (grouped 3-3). Vertically-boarded entrance door with 2-pane fanlight to house in penultimate bay to left; regular fenestration in flanking bays. 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber entrance door with 2-pane fanlight to chapel in bay to right of centre; regular fenestration in bays to right.
N GABLE: symmetrical 2-bay elevation with tall windows in each bay, rising into gablehead; gabled painted ashlar bellcote with bell in pointed-arched opening at apex.
S GABLE: single attic window to left.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane lying-pane pattern to house and chapel in principal elevation, 16-pane lying-pane pattern to N gable, 4-pane to S gable. Purple-grey slate roof with cast-iron gutters and downpipes, skew copes to end gables and party wall, harled apex stacks with copes (cavetto-moulded to S stack) and circular cans.
RAILINGS: cement-rendered and painted dwarf wall to road, terminated to N and S by square piers with pyramidal caps, hooped railings and gates.
In ecclesiastical use. Prominently sited by the road and waterfront, this building survives with many original details intact. Its double cottage design is unusual in Shetland and more in keeping with school and schoolhouse arrangements on the mainland.
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