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Latitude: 60.1528 / 60°9'10"N
Longitude: -1.1436 / 1°8'36"W
OS Eastings: 447650
OS Northings: 1141234
OS Grid: HU476412
Mapcode National: GBR R1JX.2N8
Mapcode Global: XHFB4.J2DJ
Plus Code: 9CGW5V34+4H
Entry Name: 8 Law Lane, Lerwick
Listing Name: 4-8 (Even Nos) Law Lane
Listing Date: 12 August 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390189
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43624
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lerwick, 8 Law Lane
ID on this website: 200390189
Location: Lerwick
County: Shetland Islands
Town: Lerwick
Electoral Ward: Lerwick North
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century. 3-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house of rectangular plan on sloping site with 2 single storey and attic 2-bay gabled wings stepping down hill to NE. Random rubble walls with ashlar dressings. Projecting cills at windows.
SE (LAW LANE) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight centred at ground, flanking windows and regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors.
SW ELEVATION: 2-bay gable end, regularly fenestrated at 1st floor, single 1st floor window in bay at left.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated.
NE ELEVATION: windows at each floor to left, wing advanced at ground floor to right.
WING: (former No 6 Law Lane) 2-bay elevation to Law Lane (SW), with infilled door in bay at left; single window to right in gablehead, ground floor obscured by No 4; blank rear elevation.
NO 4 LAW LANE: 2-bay elevation to Law Lane (SW), blank at ground floor in bay to right, metal-clad box dormer breaking eaves above; vertically-boarded timber door to left of centre at (NE) gable; blank rear elevation.
Modern 12-pane glazing. Purple-grey slate roof, stugged ashlar apex stacks, coped with circular battered and moulded red cans. Ashlar and concrete skew copes.
One of the finest houses in the Lanes area. An attempt has been made to reproduce the profile of the original sliding sashes at the main house, but not at the wing. No 4 is shown in a photograph of circa 1975 with no window patterns extant except for a 4-pane timber sash and window in the box dormer.
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