Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

25 BURGH ROAD, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATELB43578

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
12/08/1996
Local Authority
Shetland Islands
Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Burgh
Lerwick
NGR
HU 47243 41388
Coordinates
447243, 1141388

Description

Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house of rectangular plan. Harl-pointed stugged sandstone walls. Projecting cills at windows. Modern glazed timber porch with cement-rendered base at ground in centre bay, regular fenestration in flanking bays and at 1st floor. Blank S gable with modern garage at ground. Modern lean-to porch at rear elevation, bipartite window centred at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case windows, 12-pane to principal elevation, 4-pane to rear. Purple-grey slate roof; coped apex stacks with circular cans, cement-rendered skew copes.

BOUNDARY WALLS: cement-rendered dwarf wall to Burgh Road, coped with decorative cast-iron railings; central gate comprising cement-rendered gatepiers with bases, semicircular caps and matching cast-iron gate. Random rubble boundary wall with concrete cope to S.

Statement of Special Interest

A photograph of circa 1970 shows a flat-roofed, corniced and margined porch centred at ground floor of the principal front, with the entrance door in the side and a 15-pane border-glazed window to the W face. The loss of the porch is unfortunate, but this remains a good quality building from this period with the majority of its external details surviving.

References

Bibliography

Thomas Manson LERWICK DURING THE LAST HALF CENTURY (1991) p228.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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