Leask's, Esplanade, Lerwick

Leask's is a two-storey and attic tenement built around 1900 in the Scots Baronial style. It features five asymmetrical bays and has a chamfered corner bay at the southeast corner, along with a single-storey shop wing on the north elevation. The building is constructed with stugged sandstone walls, polished and droved ashlar dressings, and stugged rubble on the north elevation. The windows have chamfered arrises and sloping cills.

On the east elevation facing the Esplanade, the design is asymmetrical with a single bay crow-stepped gable. The left side has a chamfered corner bay, while the right side features a single-storey shop with a crow-stepped gable topped with a ball finial. The shop windows at ground level have plate glass fixed-lights. The first and second floors of the gable have tripartite windows, with the second floor showcasing round-headed lights and a circular crenellated bartizan with a flagpole at the northeast corner. A segmental turret is corbelled out at the first floor of the corner bay, leading to a semi-octagonal three-light corner tower that breaks the eaves.

The south elevation is also asymmetrical, consisting of five bays with irregular fenestration at ground level. An entrance door is located in the outer right bay, above which is an armorial panel framed with a roll-moulded design, featuring a carved ship and the date 1836. To the right, there are three dormers with crow-stepped and ball-finialled stone dormer heads that break the eaves, while the left bay has metal-clad box dormers.

The north elevation features a projecting single-storey shop wing at ground level. The first and second floors have irregular fenestration, including a concrete four-light canted oriel window at the centre. There are three bays to the left with dormers that have crow-stepped and ball-finialled dormer heads, and a shouldered and crow-stepped wallhead stack between the outer left bay and a matching wallhead stack to the right of centre, with metal-clad dormers in the bays to the right.

Some original plate glass timber sash and case windows remain at the first floor, while modern glazing has been installed elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slate and features cast-iron gutters and downpipes. The bell-cast pyramidal roof has a wrought-iron weathervane on the tower, and stugged ashlar stacks are topped with tall circular cans. The principal gable is crow-stepped and adorned with a thistle finial.