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Latitude: 60.1525 / 60°9'9"N
Longitude: -1.1455 / 1°8'43"W
OS Eastings: 447545
OS Northings: 1141202
OS Grid: HU475412
Mapcode National: GBR R1JX.1SS
Mapcode Global: XHFB4.H2MQ
Plus Code: 9CGW5V33+2R
Entry Name: 17 Hillhead & Gatepiers, Lerwick
Listing Name: 12 Hillhead, Including Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 12 August 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390177
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43615
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lerwick, 17 Hillhead & Gatepiers
ID on this website: 200390177
Location: Lerwick
County: Shetland Islands
Town: Lerwick
Electoral Ward: Lerwick North
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house of rectangular plan. Random rubble walls with droved ashlar dressings. Projecting cills at margined windows. Stugged sandstone gabled porch at ground in centre bay; 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with plate glass fanlight; 12-pane border glazed timber fixed-lights with stained glass to side elevations. Regular fenestration in flanking bays and at 1st floor. Blank N gable, single storey lean-to to S gable with single window above at right. Irregularly fenestrated rear elevation.
Timber sash and case windows, predominantly 12-pane, with 4-pane to S gable and lean-to. Purple-grey slate roof with cast-iron downpipe with hopper to right. Stugged sandstone apex stacks, coped, with circular cans. Cement-rendered skew copes to principal gables, ashlar to porch.
Stugged and droved ashlar gatepiers (to street) with bases and corniced pyramidal caps flanking stone steps accessing flagged terrace; stugged sandstone wall flanking gate surmounted by ashlar cope and cast-iron railings. Random rubble wall to S incorporating wall of lean-to.
A smart house from this period of prosperity in Lerwick, with many original features surviving. Address amended from 17 Hillhead, November 2005.
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