173 Commercial Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
173 Commercial Street, Lerwick
- WRENN ID
- western-jamb-blackthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1996
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 173 Commercial Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0HX
- OS grid reference
- HU 476 414
- Coordinates
- 60.15464, -1.14403
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
173 Commercial Street in Lerwick is an early 19th-century tenement building with a shopfront added in the early 20th century. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, situated on a sloping site. The shop is located at the ground level and features a two-bay gable facing Commercial Street to the east, with a lean-to addition to the north.
The east gable is asymmetrical and has a symmetrical timber shopfront at the ground level, which extends into the addition on the right. It includes a central door flanked by windows above stall risers, with a corniced and bracketed fascia above. The first and second floors have regular window arrangements, with an additional window in the gable of the lean-to on the right.
On the north elevation, the lean-to addition has a blank wall except for a margined door at the center. The building features droved ashlar lead-clad dormers that break the eaves at the attic level.
The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass on the first floor of the gable, a 12-pane window in the left attic bay, a blind window on the right, and 9-pane windows in the dormers. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has a droved ashlar apex stack that is coped, along with circular cans and cement-rendered skew copes with skewputts.
Local climate
173 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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