101 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. 1 related planning application.
101 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- errant-keystone-foxglove
- 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
- 101 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0BD
- OS grid reference
- HU 477 412
- Coordinates
- 60.15298, -1.14255
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
101 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an 18th-century, two-storey and attic tenement located at the end of a terrace. It features a two-bay gable facing Commercial Street and a six-bay elevation towards Gardie Lane. The building has harl-pointed rubble walls with droved sandstone margins and dressings, and the windows are margined with projecting cills.
On the north elevation facing Commercial Street, the design is asymmetrical. The ground floor has a smooth cement-rendered shopfront, with a panelled door featuring a glazed upper section on the left and a plate glass fixed-light window on the right. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there is a single attic window in the left bay.
The east elevation facing Gardie Lane is also asymmetrical and consists of six bays arranged in two groups of three. The right group (No 1) has a rendered brick and stone forestair with a wrought-iron handrail at the ground level, leading to a narrow vertically-boarded timber door centered in the first floor, flanked by windows. There is an infilled window at ground level in the bay to the right. The left group (No 2) has a higher wallhead and floor levels, featuring a vertically-boarded timber door with a plate glass fanlight in the center bay, a boarded doorway in the bay to the right, and an infilled window in the outer left bay. The first floor has regular fenestration.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with 12 panes on the first floor and 8 lying panes in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slate and has red ridge tiles, along with cast-iron gutters and downpipes. The north gable and the mutual west gable have stugged ashlar apex stacks, coped with circular cans and cement-rendered skew copes.
Local climate
101 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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