Market Cross, Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Monument.
Market Cross, Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- dusted-foundation-winter
- 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
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- HU 477 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15318, -1.14263
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Cross on Commercial Street in Lerwick is a squat, tapering column made of ashlar stone. It has a square ashlar base set on a concrete plinth. The column supports a corniced square cap and a stepped base for an inter-war cast-iron lamp standard that features open work. On the northeast side, there is a recess with a glazed timber door that contains a barometer.
Local climate
Market Cross, 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.
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