Anderson Homes, 1-12 Twagoes Road, Lerwick

Anderson Homes, located at 1-12 Twagoes Road in Lerwick, is a former widow's asylum built in 1865. The building has a symmetrical near-rectangular plan, featuring a central two-storey and attic block with single-storey and attic wings on either side. It is designed with gabled pavilions at both the left and right ends. The exterior is constructed from harl-pointed tooled cream sandstone, with some later cement patching.

The southeast elevation, which serves as the seaward entrance, showcases the central two-storey and attic block with a piend roof. At the center, there is a porch that features a large plaque with an inscription, a monogram, recessed columns, and trefoil details, along with an additional blank panel below. This elevation includes two attic windows and single hoodmoulded windows on the ground and first floors in the bays to the left and right of the porch. The single-storey and attic wings have two porches with single windows, and attic windows with gabled stone dormerheads above. The gabled pavilions on the outer left and right have single hoodmoulded windows at the ground level and in the gablehead, topped with stone finials.

On the west elevation facing Twagoes Road, the central block has two doorways, with a marble commemorative plaque to Arthur Anderson positioned above. There are two attic windows with stone dormerheads and single windows at the ground and first floors in the bays flanking the doorways. This elevation also has later flat-roofed single-storey extensions that obscure the single-storey and attic wings. The gable pavilions on the outer left and right include a doorway and a single window at the ground level, as well as a single window in the gablehead.

The north and south elevations are three-bay with central projecting porches, featuring hoodmoulded windows flanking the porches and three attic windows above. The building is fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows and has a grey-purple slate roof, which is complemented by two coped ridge stacks with moulded cans and block skewputts. The interior was not seen in 1995.