165 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
165 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- tilted-arch-plover
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 165 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0EX
- OS grid reference
- HU 476 414
- Coordinates
- 60.15438, -1.14388
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
165 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey tenement building. It features a two-bay gable facing the street and a three-bay elevation on Hill Lane to the north. The gable is constructed of random rubble with droved ashlar dressings, while the northern elevation is cement-rendered and lined. The windows have projecting cills.
On the eastern elevation facing Commercial Street, there is a modern shopfront framed by rubble corners at the ground level. The first floor has regular window arrangements, and there is a single window on the second floor in the left bay.
The northern elevation on Hill Lane includes a plate glass fixed-light shop window at the ground level on the outer left. There is an infilled window on the first floor in the outer right bay, with a window above it and another in the left bay.
The building has modern glazing throughout and is topped with a purple-grey slate roof. It features a cast-iron gutter and downpipe with a hopper on the northern elevation, along with a coped rubble apex stack that has circular cans and cement-rendered skew copes.
Local climate
165 Commercial 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 167 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- Clydesdale Bank, 106 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 169 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 171 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- Medical Hall, 96 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 173 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 92 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 175 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 116 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- 90 Commercial Street, Lerwick