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Latitude: 58.9786 / 58°58'42"N
Longitude: -2.9618 / 2°57'42"W
OS Eastings: 344805
OS Northings: 1010557
OS Grid: HY448105
Mapcode National: GBR M510.3Y3
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GLT9
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HQ+C7
Entry Name: 3 Main Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 3 Main Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381572
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36720
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 3 Main Street
ID on this website: 200381572
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
18th century with later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical house, (subdivided into flats), with modern glazed flat-entry link to right (W), adjoining further properties (not listed); entrance elevation onto small courtyard. Harled with plain cement margins to openings.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern, part-glazed door at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
N (UNION STREET) ELEVATION: small window at each floor in bay to centre. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay: window at each floor in bay to left; attic window above. Attic window in bay to right; gablehead stack above.
W (LINK) ELEVATION: modern door to each floor with steel access staircase.
Replacement 2-pane timber sash and case windows; rooflights to each pitch. Modern grey slate roof; stone skews; corniced, harled gablehead stacks to E and W; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
Recently refurbished, the core of this building is 18th century. Main Street is the continuation to the old street which flanked the southern extent of the Oyce and which took roads out of Kirkwall to Scapa and the West Mainland.
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