99 Commercial Street, Lerwick

18th century, with 19th century alterations. 2-storey and attic tenement with 2-bay gable to Commercial Street (N) and 6-bay former entrance elevation to Gardie Lane (W). Harl-pointed and cement-rendered and lined rubble walls with cement margins, cills and quoins.

N (COMMERCIAL STREET) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical 2-bay gable, 3-bay cement-rendered and painted shopfront at ground, bays divided by decorative stone columns, modern glazing, door in bay at right. Regular fenestration at 1st floor and in gablehead.

W (GARDIE LANE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, shopfront returned with single window at ground to outer left; 1st floor window corresponding to gable. Smaller floor heights and margined windows in bays at right; infilled architraved doorpiece with fluted frieze and cornice above centring 3 bays to right, modern door inserted at ground in penultimate bay to right, square opening below cill at ground in bay to outer right.

E ELEVATION: modern addition projecting at 1st floor; evidence of infilled openings, some with margins.

Timber sash and case windows, 4-pane to gable, plate glass over doorpiece and at 1st floor to outer right of W elevation. Grey slate roof, coped apex stack with circular cans.