167 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Tenement.

167 Commercial Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
tired-bracket-swallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
HU 476 414
Coordinates
60.15445, -1.14391
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

167 Commercial Street in Lerwick is a two-storey and attic tenement building from the later 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is situated on a sloping site and features a two-bay gable facing Commercial Street, with closes on the north and south sides. The shopfront is painted ashlar, while the other walls are made of harl-pointed rubble with droved sandstone dressings. The windows have projecting cills.

The east gable facing Commercial Street is symmetrical above ground. The ground floor has a painted shopfront that includes a corniced modern shop door on the left and a square plate glass shop window on the right. The first and second floors have regular window arrangements, leading up to a rubble apex stack with harled sides and a concrete cope.

The south elevation has an irregular arrangement of windows, featuring a modern door and glazing.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a two-pane fixed-light shop window in the left bay at ground level, and a four-pane timber sash and case window above. There is an infilled window in the center at ground level, a blank space above, and another infilled window in the right bay with a six-pane hopper window above it.

The west gable has a harled apex stack that is coped with circular cans. The north elevation includes a two-pane fixed-light shop window and four-pane timber sash and case windows on the gable. The roof is made of corrugated sheet material with cement-rendered skew copes.

Local climate

167 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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