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Latitude: 58.9821 / 58°58'55"N
Longitude: -2.9597 / 2°57'35"W
OS Eastings: 344930
OS Northings: 1010943
OS Grid: HY449109
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.YNW
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HHTM
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JR+R4
Entry Name: Orkney Tourist Board, 6 Broad Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 6 Broad Street, Orkney Tourist Board
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381517
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36673
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 6 Broad Street, Orkney Tourist Board
ID on this website: 200381517
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical, rectangular-plan house, converted as tourist office, with piended dormers and crowsteps at rear. Harled with painted cement dressings. Base course; eaves course. Plain margins to windows; strip quoins.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corniced and architraved doorpiece at ground in bay to centre; timber panelled door with geometric fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking; 2, evenly disposed, 3-light dormers above.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay, near-symmetrical. Architraved door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to right of centre; window at 1st floor; attic window to gable above. Window at each floor in bay to left of centre; gablehead stack above.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor in bay to right of centre; small attic window to gable; gablehead stack above.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; 4-pane timber sash and case windows to central dormer lights; rooflight to centre of W pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews to W; crowsteps to E; harled, corniced gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: converted at ground to tourist office; timber skirting boards and timber-panelled doors; unseen above.
Providing a strong terminal to the east end of Castle Street, this building is an relatively little-altered survivor of Georgian development in Kirkwall. It is flanked by Number 4, another example of plain classical house, and to the rear by the slightly more substantial Number 8, both listed separately, and forming a fine group. Number 6 possesses, to the rear, a polygonal stair tower, (not fully seen, 1998).
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