Vogalee, 78 St Olaf Street, Lerwick

Vogalee, located at 78 St Olaf Street in Lerwick, is a villa built around 1900. This two-storey, three-bay building features an asymmetrical rectangular plan. The principal elevation is made of stugged squared and snecked sandstone, while the side and rear elevations are constructed from random rubble, all adorned with polished and droved ashlar dressings and details. The windows are margined and have projecting cills.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a glazed timber porch in the center bay, which includes a glazed door with a five-pane fanlight above and flanking fixed lights with plate glass below and nine panes above. The porch has a glazed piended roof with cast-iron brattishing. Above, there is a bipartite dormer window centered on the first floor, with round-arched windows in the gabled stone dormerhead that breaks the eaves. To the right, there is a tripartite window at ground level, and a matching dormer at the first floor with pointed arch-heads to the windows. The left bay features a two-storey, three-light canted window that also breaks the eaves, with base, cill, and lintel courses at ground level, a cill course at the first floor, and a pointed-arched lintel at the center rising to the gabled dormerhead.

The north (King Erik Street) elevation has two closely spaced windows at ground level and a single window at the first floor, all positioned to the left of center. The south elevation features windows at the outer left and right at ground level, with a single window centered at the first floor. The east (rear) elevation includes a lean-to addition at ground level and a stair window that breaks the eaves, centered on the first floor.

Most windows have modern glazing, except for the porch and a six-pane border-glazed fixed-light stair window. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and features cast-iron hoppers for rainwater goods. The apex stacks are stugged squared and snecked, topped with predominantly octagonal cans. The skew copes are made of ashlar and have bracketted and gabletted skewputts.

The boundary walls and railings consist of a stugged squared and snecked sandstone dwarf wall along St Olaf Street, which steps up along King Erik Street. This wall is topped with an ashlar cope and decorative cast-iron railings. There are matching cast-iron gates with ball-finialled stanchions at the center of the house and at the south end of the wall. To the north and east, there is a random rubble wall with a stugged saddleback cope.