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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
Tagged with: School building
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
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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