1-2 Carlton Place, Prince Alfred Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Pairs of houses. 3 related planning applications.

1-2 Carlton Place, Prince Alfred Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
quiet-rubblework-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
Pairs of houses
Address
1-2 Carlton Place, Prince Alfred Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0ED
OS grid reference
HU 474 412
Coordinates
60.15281, -1.14628
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-2 Carlton Place on Prince Alfred Street in Lerwick is a pair of mirrored houses built in 1886. These single-storey and attic homes sit over a basement and are arranged in a rectangular plan on a sloping end-terrace site. The exterior features stugged, squared, and snecked stone with droved ashlar dressings and details, including projecting cills at the windows.

The south elevation facing Prince Alfred Street showcases a single-storey and attic design with paired entrance doors at the principal floor. The left door has six panels, while the right door has four panels, each adorned with stained glass and plate glass fanlights, respectively. The centre bay on the first floor has paired windows, and the stone dormerheads with gablet skewputts break the eaves in both the centre and outer bays.

On the west elevation, there is a random rubble gable with windows located at the principal and first floors on the outer left and right sides. The north elevation, which is the rear, also features a single-storey and attic over basement design, with a piend-roofed projection at the centre.

The roofs and dormers are covered with purple-grey slates. A stugged sandstone chimney stack with six flues is located at the west side, featuring a coped top and predominantly circular cans. The gable ends have ashlar skew copes with gablet skewputts. The building has modern glazing throughout.

Local climate

1-2 Carlton Place, Prince Alfred Street, 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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