67 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 November 1974. Tenement.
67 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- vast-finial-claret
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 67 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0AB
- OS grid reference
- HU 477 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15298, -1.14089
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
67 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey tenement building. It features a single bay, bowed, nearly symmetrical main elevation facing Commercial Street, and an asymmetrical three-bay elevation on Church Road. The principal elevation is made of droved ashlar, while the sides are constructed from stugged sandstone with droved ashlar margins. The building includes a base course, string courses at the first and second floors, a lintel course at the second floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course that is raised at the center above. The windows have projecting cills.
On the north elevation facing Commercial Street, the design is near symmetrical. It has a 12-pane fixed-light shop window centered at the ground level, flanked by doorways. To the left is a four-panel, two-leaf timber door with a two-pane fanlight above, and to the right is an ashlar-infilled section to cill height with a six-pane fixed-light window. The upper floors feature tripartite windows, with a 12-pane timber sash and case window at the center and four-pane sidelights at the first floor, while the second floor has modern glazing. The elevation is topped with a coped wall that includes a door to a close adjoining on the right, with droved ashlar margins.
The east elevation facing Church Road is asymmetrical and consists of three bays. It has multi-pane fixed-lights with colored glass, round-arched above, at intermediate levels in the center bay. The windows include timber sash and case windows, with a 12-pane window at ground level and a four-pane window above, located immediately to the right of the center bay. There is a four-panel door with a plate glass fanlight at ground level immediately to the left of the center bay. The right bay is blank, and there is a blank section at the first floor in the left bay, which has four-pane timber sash and case windows at the ground and second floors. To the left, there is an adjoining two-storey, two-bay rubble building that is recessed, featuring hoppered windows and a corrugated asbestos roof.
The roof is made of grey slate, piended and curved over the bow. There is a multi-flue droved ashlar apex stack on the south gable and a wallhead stack on the right side of the east elevation, both coped with moulded circular cans. Ashlar skew copes complete the design.
Local climate
67 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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