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Leog House, 2 Leog Lane, Lerwick

A Category C Listed Building in Lerwick, Shetland Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 60.1515 / 60°9'5"N

Longitude: -1.1378 / 1°8'15"W

OS Eastings: 447974

OS Northings: 1141091

OS Grid: HU479410

Mapcode National: GBR R1JX.C8T

Mapcode Global: XHFB4.L3QJ

Plus Code: 9CGW5V26+JV

Entry Name: Leog House, 2 Leog Lane, Lerwick

Listing Name: 2 Leog Lane, Leog House, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 12 August 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390191

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43626

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390191

Location: Lerwick

County: Shetland Islands

Town: Lerwick

Electoral Ward: Lerwick South

Traditional County: Shetland

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Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey and attic symmetrical house of rectangular plan with modern 2-storey additions to N side and rear elevations. Stugged ashlar principal front, rubble side elevations with stugged and droved ashlar dressings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: projecting, pedimented, ashlar porch centred at ground; 4-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight above, 3-pane fixed-lights in sides. Wyatt windows at ground and 1st floors in flanking bays; narrow round-arched window in gablehead breaking eaves in centre bay.

S ELEVATION: single window to left of centre at ground; window above and in bay to right; small window centred in gablehead.

Modern glazing throughout. Purple-grey slate roof with piend-roofed, slate-hung canted timber dormers to E pitch. Lead roof to porch. Stugged ashlar apex stacks, corniced, with octagonal cans. Ashlar skew copes with bracketted skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble walls to N and S of garden. Square rubble gatepiers to S gate with droved pyramidal caps; slatted timber gate.

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