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Ice Factory, Grantfield, Lerwick

A Category B Listed Building in Lerwick, Shetland Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 60.1586 / 60°9'30"N

Longitude: -1.1537 / 1°9'13"W

OS Eastings: 447077

OS Northings: 1141870

OS Grid: HU470418

Mapcode National: GBR R1HW.Q06

Mapcode Global: XHF9Y.DX9M

Plus Code: 9CGW5R5W+CG

Entry Name: Ice Factory, Grantfield, Lerwick

Listing Name: Grantfield, Former Ice Factory

Listing Date: 12 August 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390168

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43606

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390168

Location: Lerwick

County: Shetland Islands

Town: Lerwick

Electoral Ward: Lerwick North

Traditional County: Shetland

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Description

Early 19th century. Pair of 2-storey and attic industrial buildings with mutual side wall giving M-gables to E and W; single storey gabled buildings projecting to W. Random rubble walls with stugged sandstone dressings, droved at arrises.

E ELEVATION: M-gable; openings with segmental-arched lintels centring left gable at each floor and hoist projecting in gablehead. Right gable; wide opening with modern doors centred at ground; infilled door to left. Partially-infilled loading door centred at 1st floor with flanking windows, vertically-boarded timber loading door with timber flagpole above centred in gablehead.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical, irregular fenestration; chimney-gable to left of centre with windows flanking, right window shared with group to right centred by 4-panel timber door with plate glass fanlight and matching window to right. Door accessed by open timber stair to landing supported on decorative cast-iron brackets. Infilled door centred below chimneygable at ground, with boarded window to left, 6-pane fixed-light to right.

W ELEVATION: gabled cement-rendered rubble wings (with built-up wallheads) projecting at ground.

S ELEVATION: 2 bays, widely spaced, with windows flanking centre at 1st floor. Modern lean-to addition projecting at ground to outer left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to principal windows at 1st floor. Vertically-boarded timber doors. Purple-grey slates, cement-rendered rubble and brick chimney and ashlar skew copes to N block. Grey slate and corrugated-iron cladding to S block.

Statement of Interest

A prominent feature of Grantfield indicating the former appearance of this area.

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