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Latitude: 58.9804 / 58°58'49"N
Longitude: -2.9615 / 2°57'41"W
OS Eastings: 344825
OS Northings: 1010762
OS Grid: HY448107
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.XQX
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GJZW
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JQ+59
Entry Name: 27 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 27 Victoria Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381539
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36690
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 27 Victoria Street
ID on this website: 200381539
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Semi-detached house
18th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 2-bay (3-bay at ground) rectangular-plan gable-ended house adjoining further rectangular-plan house to rear (W). Harled with cement dressings. Band course between ground and 1st floors.
E (GABLE) ELEVATION: 3 evenly disposed window at ground; 2 evenly disposed windows at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: irregular, 4-bay. Deep-set part-glazed timber door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to centre. Window at 1st floor in bay to left of centre. Window at each floor in penultimate bay to left. Small window at ground in bay to outer right.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank.
2-, 4- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows; small rooflights to S pitch. Traditional graded stone slated roof; stone ridge; stone skews; shield motif to cavetto-moulded skewputts; harled, corniced gablehead stack to E; similar common stack to W; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
This house retains its graded stone slate roof and decorative skewputts.
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