Warehouse, 18 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Store.

Warehouse, 18 Commercial Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
grim-bonework-barley
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
Store
Address
Warehouse, 18 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0AN
OS grid reference
HU 479 412
Coordinates
60.15283, -1.1385
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This 18th-century warehouse is located at 18 Commercial Street in Lerwick. It is a single-storey building with a layout of three by two bays, situated at the northern end of the lodberry. The walls are constructed of random rubble with dressed sandstone accents. The northern elevation features three bays, with a central sea door and partially infilled windows on either side. On the eastern gable, there is a door on the left and a slit window in the gablehead. The western gable has a partially infilled window on the left and an infilled slit window on the right. The gable also has a coped wall extending to the right, which includes a central sea door, stone steps, and two vertically-boarded timber doors. The roof is covered with corrugated sheets and has concrete-covered skew copes.

Local climate

Warehouse, 18 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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