113 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. 3 related planning applications.

113 Commercial Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
grey-barrel-elder
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
Address
113 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0DL
OS grid reference
HU 476 412
Coordinates
60.1532, -1.14315
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

113 Commercial Street in Lerwick is a tenement building dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. It has three storeys and an attic, featuring a two-bay gable facing the street and flanking closes. The shopfront is made of droved ashlar and painted, while the walls are harled elsewhere. There is a base course and a band course above the shopfront, with projecting cills at the windows.

The northeast elevation, which faces Commercial Street, is nearly symmetrical. It has a margined fixed-light shop window on the ground floor in the left bay and a two-leaf flush panelled door in the right bay. The first and second floors have regular fenestration with 12-lying-pane timber sash and case windows, and a segmental-arched 8-lying-pane timber sash and case window is centered in the gablehead at the attic.

On the northwest elevation, which faces Hangcliff Lane, there is a margined 2-pane fixed-light shop window in the shopfront that returns to the left, with "HANGCLIFF LANE" incised in the band course above. The left side above ground is blank, and there is a modern forestair leading to a part-glazed door, flanked by a 12-pane timber sash and case window and another sash and case window above to the right. A modern glazed link extends to the right, connecting to a neighboring office.

The southeast elevation, facing Pirate Lane, has irregular fenestration grouped at the center, with infilled openings on the left side. The roof is covered with grey slate and features skew copes on the northeast gable, along with a large harled and coped wallhead stack on the southeast elevation.

Local climate

113 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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