97 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
97 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- woven-clay-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 97 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0BD
- OS grid reference
- HU 477 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15297, -1.14215
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
97 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an 18th-century, two-storey and attic tenement with a two-bay gable facing Commercial Street. The building features harled walls and harl-pointed rubble on the south elevation, with projecting cills at the windows.
On the north elevation, which faces Commercial Street, there is a modern shopfront at ground level, while the upper floors have regular window arrangements, except for a blank space in the attic on the left side. A large gablehead stack is present.
The east elevation is mostly blank, with windows flanking the centre on the first floor, although the window on the right has been infilled. There is a margined corner on the right side.
The west elevation is cement rendered and lined on the right, with a modern addition that projects at the first floor, and a margined corner on the left.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the first floor and four-pane windows in the attic. The roof is made of purple-grey slate, featuring a harled apex stack and cement-rendered skew copes with corbelled skewputts.
Local climate
97 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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