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Latitude: 60.152 / 60°9'7"N
Longitude: -1.1452 / 1°8'42"W
OS Eastings: 447560
OS Northings: 1141143
OS Grid: HU475411
Mapcode National: GBR R1JX.1X9
Mapcode Global: XHFB4.H3Q4
Plus Code: 9CGW5V23+RW
Entry Name: Gordon Cottage, 2 Hillhead, Lerwick
Listing Name: 2 Hillhead, Gordon Cottage, Including Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 12 August 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390178
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43616
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390178
Location: Lerwick
County: Shetland Islands
Town: Lerwick
Electoral Ward: Lerwick North
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Cottage
Circa 1840. 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical house of rectangular plan. Harl-pointed rubble walls with polished and droved ashlar dressings. Projecting cills at windows. Pedimented ashlar porch projecting at ground in centre bay; 4-panel timber entrance door with plate glass fanlight. Regular fenestration in flanking bays and at 1st floor. Blank rubble N gable. Modern lean-to addition to rear elevation at ground with single window to left at 1st floor.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with cast-iron gutters and downpipe with hopper. Stugged and droved apex stacks (mutual to S), coped, with octagonal cans; ashlar skew copes.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: rubble walls advanced at principal elevation ends; cement-rendered and lined dwarf wall to street surmounted by ashlar cope and wrought-iron railing with spear finials; matching gate at centre with urn-finialled stanchions. Rubble boundary wall to N.
Gordon Cottage was built by Charles Ogilvy and was, for many years, the home of the Heddle family. A photograph of 1959 shows the house with the appropriate 12-pane timber sash and case windows. This is a good quality building from this period of prosperity in Lerwick.
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