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Grammar School, 36 Broad Street, Kirkwall

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.981 / 58°58'51"N

Longitude: -2.9607 / 2°57'38"W

OS Eastings: 344873

OS Northings: 1010829

OS Grid: HY448108

Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.Y5W

Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HJCD

Plus Code: 9CCVX2JQ+CP

Entry Name: Grammar School, 36 Broad Street, Kirkwall

Listing Name: 36 Broad Street, (Former Grammar School)

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 381523

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36680

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kirkwall, 36 Broad Street, Grammar School

ID on this website: 200381523

Location: Kirkwall

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Kirkwall

Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East

Traditional County: Orkney

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Description

18th century, possibly incorporating earlier fabric; later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan, near-symmetrical, crowstepped gabled house with pitched-roofed entrance porch to N, abutting shop to right (W) and SW angle of Number 3 Palace Road, (listed separately). Harled. block cills.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: part-glazed modern door to entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; small window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right. Non-aligned window at each in bay to left.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern timber panelled door offset to right of centre at ground; centred window at 1st floor. Window at each floor in bay to right. 2-storey range projecting S at right angles from bay to left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights to S pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced, blocked gablehead stacks to E and W; uPVC and cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998

Statement of Interest

A town house of some elegance, a building on this site served as Kirkwall Grammar School from 1544 until 1764. It seems to compete with Numbers 6-10 School Place (listed separately) for the accolade of Kirkwall's original Grammar School, both seeing service as such at one time or another. Features of interest to note include the distinctive wide gap between 1st floor windows and eaves, typical of town houses of both Orkney and Shetland, the surviving crowstepped gables and the substantial gablehead stacks.

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