3-6 Carlton Place, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick

3-6 Carlton Place, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick is a 2-storey and attic corner tenement built in 1886, designed in an asymmetrical Scots Baronial style with a concealed basement. The building features shops at ground level and has 2 and 4-bay elevations to the south and east, respectively, with an additional chamfered and gabled corner bay to the southeast. The walls are made of stugged squared and snecked sandstone ashlar, with droved edges. The east elevation includes a base course and projecting cills at the windows.

On the south elevation facing Prince Alfred Street, there is a 2-bay design with a chamfered corner bay on the right. The centre and left bays have partially obscured boarded windows in the basement, while the ground floor features 2-pane fixed-light square shop windows and regular window placement on the first floor. There is a boarded entrance door in the corner bay, and a blind window on the first floor has a corniced cill with the inscription "Carlton Place." The chimney-gable rises steeply above the eaves and includes a window in the gablehead.

The east elevation facing Lower Hillhead is asymmetrical with 4 bays. It has a central door flanked by 2-pane fixed-light square shop windows at ground level in the bays to the left of centre, with regular window placement on the first floor. A pair of 4-panel timber tenement doors with plate glass fanlights are located in the bay to the right of centre, along with a bipartite window on the first floor. A nepus gable breaks the eaves above this bay, featuring a window in the gablehead. The outer right bay has regular window placement.

The first floor retains 4-pane timber sash and case windows, although some modern glazing is present at the northern end. The roof is covered with grey slate and features cast-iron profiled gutters and downpipes with hoppers. There are piend-roofed, slate-hung canted timber dormers with 4-pane timber sash and case windows and plate glass sidelights. The apex stacks are stugged and droved, with deep moulded copes and mainly octagonal cans. The gable ends are finished with ashlar skew copes, gabletted, and bracketted skewputts.