Seafield House, 49 Commercial Street, Lerwick

SEAFIELD HOUSE AND 1 CHROMATE LANE: 18th century. 4-bay, 2-storey and attic asymmetrical former town house of rectangular plan on sloping end of terrace site with flanking closes and gable to street. Harl-pointed upper gable and NW elevation, cement-rendered and lined SE elevation. Some margined windows.

SE (CHROMATE LANE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 4 bays (grouped 3-1), shop window at ground in bay to outer right, window above offset to left; 3-bay section, entrance door at ground in bay to right, blank at 1st floor in bay to outer left.

NE (COMMERCIAL STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay near-symmetrical elevation, painted shopfront at ground with window at left and 6-panel, 2-leaf flush-beaded timber door with 4-pane fanlight above at right; regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with 5-pane fanlight above centred at ground, blank bay at left, wide window at ground in bay to right.

3 CHROMATE LANE: early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house of rectangular plan on sloping end of terrace site with flanking closes. Harl-pointed rubble walls, margined windows with projecting cills.

SE (CHROMATE LANE) ELEVATION: modern timber entrance door centred at ground, flanking windows and regular fenestration at 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: gable end with boarded opening and small square modern window to left at ground and 1st floors respectively.

NW ELEVATION: blank elevation except for modern 6-panel timber door with 5-pane fanlight centred at ground, and rubble-infilled window at 1st floor in bay to left, chamfered corner at ground to right.

Variety of glazing types; surviving timber sash and case windows predominantly plate glass and 4-pane patterns with 12-pane surviving at 1st floor of NW elevation. Purple-grey slate roof, harl-pointed apex stacks, coped with circular cans, ashlar and cement-rendered skew copes.