Lochend House, 41-43 Commercial Street, Lerwick

Lochend House is a circa 1760 town house with an early 19th-century addition, situated in Lerwick. It is an L-plan building incorporating a shop, consisting of a three-storey and attic, three-bay gabled range to the southwest, and a two-storey and attic range to the west. The walls are largely harled, with droved ashlar and cement-rendered margins around the windows.

The southeast elevation, which is the main entrance front, is asymmetrical. The central bay features an entrance door, with a narrow window to the right and another window above. A blank space is present on the ground floor to the right. The northeast elevation (Commercial Street) features a two-bay gable, with a cement-rendered and lined ground level. A six-panel door is located in the left bay, with blank spaces above. The northwest elevation is irregularly fenestrated. The southwest elevation presents a two-storey asymmetrical facade (the ground floor is concealed), with a three-bay gable at the right, featuring a door to the left and a window to the right. A blank space is above the second floor, and small square windows are positioned on either side of the gablehead.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 12 and 4 panes. Some are fixed-lights (with 2 panes to the shop), and hoppers are also present. Modern entrance doors are in place. The roof is covered with grey-purple slate, with harled stacks, some containing thackstanes, all coped with a variety of circular cans. Cement-rendered skews are present, and the west gable is crowstepped.

Internally, many original and later fittings survive, including cornices, panelled shutters, and doors with brass rim locks. A particularly unusual feature is the 3-panel doors to a first-floor bedroom, with a balustraded upper panel flanked by fluted pilasters. The staircase has a substantial handrail reputedly constructed from ships' timber.

Boundary walls of random rubble surround the property. A squat, margined entrance gate with a segmental-arched safe lintel and iron hinge pins is located to the rear of the northeast gable. A cill is centred over the gate, with corbels above and flanking infilled square openings. A cement-rendered rubble wall extends west from the gable, with vertically-boarded timber shuttering to a doorway and a square opening above the lintel. A retaining wall incorporates vaulted cellars to the south of a flagged yard, with a doorpiece featuring a lugged architrave in an adjacent free-standing wall. A harled wall with a concrete cope defines the east side of the courtyard, while a random rubble wall bounds the garden to the south.