Gilbertson Park, Burgh Road, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Boundary wall, gates, gatepiers.
Gilbertson Park, Burgh Road, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- tangled-sentry-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1996
- Type
- Boundary wall, gates, gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- HU 470 414
- Coordinates
- 60.15485, -1.15386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gilbertson Park, located on Burgh Road in Lerwick, features classical park gates that were constructed in 1897. The gates consist of two-leaf wrought-iron gates at the center, flanked by square-plan polished ashlar gatepiers. These piers have bases and shafts that are partially fluted, adorned with rusticated banding. Above the piers is a frieze that alternates between triglyphs and medallions, topped with corniced caps featuring ball finials on stepped bases.
On either side of the gates are short lengths of stugged sandstone dwarf walls, which have ashlar coping and wrought-iron railings connecting to the flanking piers, which match the central piers but do not have ball finials. Additionally, there are dwarf quadrant walls that connect to outer piers, which also match the central piers but lack friezes, fluting, and ball finials. To the east of the park, there is a flanking rubble boundary wall with a saddleback coping.
Local climate
Gilbertson Park, Burgh Road, 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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