84 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

84 Commercial Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
sharp-string-burdock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
Tenement
Address
84 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0DL
OS grid reference
HU 476 413
Coordinates
60.1538, -1.14353
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

84 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an 18th-century tenement building that stands two storeys and an attic high, with a concealed basement, situated on a sloping site. The building features a two-bay gable facing Commercial Street and three-bay elevations on the northern and southern sides. The shopfront is cement-rendered and lined, while the other walls are constructed of harl-pointed rubble with sandstone and cement dressings. The windows have projecting cills.

On the west elevation, which faces Commercial Street, the gable is asymmetrical. The principal floor has a painted shopfront with a door on the left and a two-pane fixed-light window with a timber column at the corner on the right. There is a single boarded window on the first floor in the right bay and a single plate glass timber sash and case attic window at the gablehead in the left bay.

The south elevation consists of three bays, with the basement partially exposed, featuring a vertically-boarded timber door on the outer right. There is an infilled door in the centre bay at the principal floor, and immediately to the right, there is an additional four-panel door with a two-pane fanlight above it. The right bay has a bipartite window with 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, while the outer left corner has a plate glass fixed-light shop window. The first floor has regular 12-pane timber sash and case windows.

The north elevation has a single small window centered at both the principal and first floors, with the lower opening infilled. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and features a stugged sandstone apex stack with a concrete cope and circular cans, along with bracketed skewputts.

Local climate

84 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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