Market Cross Bakery, 107 Commercial Street, Lerwick

Market Cross Bakery, located at 107 Commercial Street in Lerwick, dates from around 1900 and includes some earlier elements. This two-storey and attic tenement, now used as offices, features a two-bay end elevation facing Commercial Street and a four-bay elevation on Mounthooly Street. The building is constructed with stugged squared and snecked ashlar and rubble walls, adorned with droved dressings. It has a corniced frieze at the first floor and projecting cills at the windows.

On the north elevation facing Commercial Street, there is an 18-panel, two-leaf timber entrance door on the right side, with a four-pane fixed-light shop window to the left. The first floor has a tripartite window with segmental-arched lights, an architraved armorial panel above it, and a timber box dormer featuring a Venetian window that breaks the eaves, all centered on the elevation.

The west elevation on Mounthooly Street is asymmetrical with four bays. It has closely spaced four and two-pane fixed-light shop windows with a frieze above across the two outer left bays. There is a bipartite window with segmental-arched lights at the first floor in the outer left bay, and a round-arched lead-clad timber dormer that breaks the eaves above. At ground level, there are doors in the right bays, including a six-panel, two-leaf timber door with a two-pane fanlight above on the left, and a partially infilled area with a hoppered window on the right, along with an additional window inserted between. A round-arched lead-clad timber dormer also breaks the eaves at the outer right bay.

The east elevation, possibly facing Heddle’s Court, is asymmetrical with three bays, featuring a blank wall in the right bay. It has four-pane fixed-light shop windows at ground level in the center and left bays. The windows in the center bay are offset to the left, with a second-floor window in the chimney-gable breaking the eaves, and a timber dormer breaking the eaves at the left.

The upper floors have timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the north elevation and four-pane windows on the west elevation. The roof is a purple-grey piended platform style, equipped with profiled cast-iron gutters and downpipes. The chimney-gable features a coped stack with circular cans.