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Latitude: 60.1545 / 60°9'16"N
Longitude: -1.1441 / 1°8'38"W
OS Eastings: 447619
OS Northings: 1141421
OS Grid: HU476414
Mapcode National: GBR R1JW.VVT
Mapcode Global: XHFB4.J157
Plus Code: 9CGW5V34+R9
Entry Name: 169 Commercial Street, Lerwick
Listing Name: 169-171 (Odd Nos) Commercial Street, Including Gate and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 12 August 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390144
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43587
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390144
Circa 1800. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay (grouped 2-1) near-symmetrical tenement with principal elevation containing shopfronts to Commercial Street (E) and close to S. Rubble walls with droved margins at corners and windows. Cavetto eaves cornice, projecting cills at windows.
E (COMMERCIAL STREET) ELEVATION: cement-rendered and lined shopfront at ground with early 20th century polished grey granite fascia superimposed at bay to right, corniced, and framing modern glazing and door; 2-pane fixed-lights and glazed door to shop windows in bays to left.
S GABLE: blank except for vertically-boarded timber door to left, 9-pane fixed-light with iron bars over door lintel.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: later cement-rendered piend-roofed addition projecting. Single flue rendered wallhead stack with cope to right of centre.
N GABLE: blank rubble elevation, harled at gablehead.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple grey slate roof; single piend-roofed, canted slate-hung timber dormer to E pitch; 4-pane timber sash and case window with 2-pane sidelights. Harled 4-flue apex stacks, coped, with octagonal cans. Cement-rendered skew copes with bracketted skewputts.
GATE: timber lattice gates to left of principal elevation, cast-iron stanchions with urn finials.
A drapers shop, Leisk & Sandison, was established here in 1813, and also occupied no 171. The company remained at these premises until the early 1950s having made extensive alterations to the building in 1895. An old photograph shows the building with a traditional shopfront across the width of the principal elevation. This is a building of impressive scale presiding over this wider part of Commercial Street.
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