90 Commercial Street, Lerwick

This property at 92 Commercial Street in Lerwick consists of a pair of linked buildings. The main structure is an early 19th century tenement that runs east-west, and it is connected to a single-storey, three-bay Scots Baronial shop built around 1885 by John M Aitken, which is positioned at a right angle to the south and faces Commercial Street.

The shop, numbered 88, features a near-symmetrical design with a cement-rendered and lined shopfront. It has a stugged and droved ashlar parapet and decorative details, all painted. The central bay contains a door, flanked by paired brackets above the lintel. The shop has a crowstepped gable topped with a thistle finial that is slightly advanced. The wide former shop windows have been converted into arches in the flanking bays. Above, there is a cornice and a crenellated parapet. A circular turret projects out at the left corner, adorned with quatrefoils in the frieze, topped with a fish-scale slated conical roof and a ball finial. To the left of the elevation, there is modern cement-rendered infill.

The roof is made of grey slate and features crowstepped gables on both the north and south sides. Flanking the door are cast-iron barley-sugar downpipes, and the building has stugged and droved ashlar chimney stacks with octagonal cans.

The tenement, numbered 92, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has harled walls with sandstone dressings that are droved at the edges. The windows have projecting cills.

On the west gable, the ground floor is constructed of sandstone rubble, with a margined and infilled door at the center. There are modern openings with cement margins flanking this door, and the upper part of the gable is blank except for a 4-pane timber sash and case window located in the gablehead to the right.

The northeast elevation is irregularly fenestrated, with some openings infilled. It features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a purple-grey slate roof, and a harled chimney stack with five flues at the apex, which is coped with circular cans. There is also a six-flue chimney stack on the east side, which is cement-rendered, lined, and coped, along with cement-rendered skew copes.