93-95 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
93-95 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- graven-threshold-moon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 93-95 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0BD
- OS grid reference
- HU 477 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15298, -1.14201
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
93-95 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an 18th-century tenement building that has undergone alterations in the 19th and late 20th centuries. It features three storeys and an attic, with a two-bay gable facing north and a partially obscured three-bay elevation to the east. The eastern elevation is harled, while the rest of the building is made of harl-pointed rubble, with painted stone margins around the windows.
The north gable is near-symmetrical, with paired panelled timber pilasters framing a shopfront. This shopfront includes a shop window over a stall riser on the right and a panelled door with a glazed upper section recessed on the left, topped with a frieze and cornice. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, and the gablehead has been altered to a mansard form.
The east elevation has three bays, with the centre and left bays obscured by modern additions. The shopfront on the right matches the north elevation, featuring a shop window over a stall riser flanked by paired panelled pilasters. The bay above has regular fenestration.
The west elevation has irregular fenestration on the upper floors. The south gable has a lean-to addition at ground level, with infilled openings on the first and second floors to the left.
The building retains timber sash and case windows in the original openings, with a 12-pane window on the first floor of the gable and plate glass windows elsewhere. It has a grey slate mansard roof with segmental-headed metal-clad dormers that contain four-pane timber sash and case windows. The original south gable features stugged sandstone apex stacks with copes and circular cans.
Local climate
93-95 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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