8 Queen's Lane, Lerwick

1 Queen's Place in Lerwick is an 18th-century building with later alterations. It features an L-plan terrace on a corner site, consisting of a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical house (No 8) at the southern corner, a 2-storey, 2-bay asymmetrical terraced house (No 1) projecting at a right angle to the west, and a 2-storey and attic, 4-bay asymmetrical tenement adjoining to the north. The principal elevation of No 8 is made of harl-pointed rubble, with a harled gable end, while the adjoining buildings at Nos 4-6 have harled walls with cement margins.

On the south elevation (Queen's Lane), No 8 has a symmetrical layout featuring a modern door with a plate glass fanlight at the center of the ground floor, flanked by regular fenestration in the surrounding bays and on the first floor. The asymmetrical elevation of Nos 4-6 to the right includes various windows on the ground and first floors, with a blank bay to the left of center, and a timber door with a fanlight in the outer right bay.

The west elevation (Queen's Place) shows a 2-bay gable end of No 8 on the right, with windows at the ground, first floor, and attic in the left bay. The 2-bay elevation of No 1 extends to the left, featuring a modern door at the ground in the right bay alongside a narrow window.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 4-pane designs at No 8 Queen's Lane and 1 Queen's Place, and 12-pane windows at Nos 4-6 Queen's Lane. The roofs are covered with purple-grey slate, equipped with cast-iron gutters and downpipes, and Nos 4-6 have metal-clad box dormers breaking the eaves. The apex and ridge stacks are harled and harl-pointed, tall and broad on the Queen's Place gable, with coped tops and circular cans, while the skew copes are cement-rendered.

Adjoining the northern gable are harled gatepiers topped with pyramidal droved ashlar caps, and there is a vertically-boarded timber gate with a slatted upper section.