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Latitude: 58.9788 / 58°58'43"N
Longitude: -2.9618 / 2°57'42"W
OS Eastings: 344806
OS Northings: 1010577
OS Grid: HY448105
Mapcode National: GBR M510.3Y0
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GLV4
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HQ+G7
Entry Name: 6 Union Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 6 Union Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381566
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36715
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 6 Union Street
ID on this website: 200381566
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical crowstepped house with stop chamfered SE angle. Harled.
S (PRINCIPAL ) ELEVATION: deep-set timber-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. Window at ground to chamfered bay to right.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: window set to right at ground; enlarged central window at 1st floor window to each side of gable; gablehead stack above.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor in bay to right. Forestair to square-plan timber porch with modern part-glazed door at 1st floor in bay to right; attic window above. Gablehead stack.
12-pane timber sash and case windows; 3 evenly disposed rooflights to S pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
Standing on the junction of Clay Loan, and Victoria Street this house abuts Number 91 Victoria Street to the rear (N). Of particular interest are the intact crowstepped gables, the small-pane glazing pattern and the distinctive wide gap between the 1st floor windows and the eaves, typical of town houses in Orkney and Shetland.
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