8 Law Lane, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Law Lane, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- idle-pillar-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Law Lane, Lerwick, ZE1 0DX
- OS grid reference
- HU 476 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15283, -1.14358
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Law Lane in Lerwick is an early 19th century, three-storey, three-bay symmetrical house with a rectangular plan, situated on a sloping site. It features two single-storey and attic two-bay gabled wings that step down the hill to the northeast. The walls are constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings and have projecting cills at the windows.
On the southeast elevation facing Law Lane, there is a six-panel timber door with a plate glass fanlight centered at the ground floor, flanked by windows, with regular fenestration on the first and second floors. The southwest elevation has a two-bay gable end with regular fenestration on the first floor, and a single window in the left bay.
The northwest (rear) elevation is irregularly fenestrated, while the northeast elevation features windows on each floor to the left, with the wing advanced at the ground floor to the right.
The wing, formerly known as No 6 Law Lane, has a two-bay elevation facing Law Lane (southwest), with an infilled door in the left bay and a single window in the gablehead, while the ground floor is obscured by No 4. No 4 Law Lane has a two-bay elevation to Law Lane (southwest) that is blank at the ground floor in the right bay, with a metal-clad box dormer breaking the eaves above and a vertically-boarded timber door to the left of center at the northeast gable. The rear elevation is blank.
The building features modern 12-pane glazing, a purple-grey slate roof, stugged ashlar apex stacks, and coped stacks with circular battered and moulded red cans. Ashlar and concrete skew copes are also present.
Local climate
8 Law Lane, Lerwick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 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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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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