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Latitude: 58.9784 / 58°58'42"N
Longitude: -2.9616 / 2°57'41"W
OS Eastings: 344820
OS Northings: 1010540
OS Grid: HY448105
Mapcode National: GBR M510.41R
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GLYD
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HQ+99
Entry Name: 8 Main Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 8 Main Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381574
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36722
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381574
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, 3-bay rectangular-plan, near-symmetrical, crowstepped gabled house forming part of terraced pair. Harled.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set modern, part-glazed door at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right. Enlarged bipartite widow at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor above.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank with gablehead stack.
2-pane timber sash and case windows; rooflight to W. Grey slate roof; harled, corniced gablehead stack to N; similar mutual stack to S; uPVC gutters; cast-iron downpipes.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
Abutting Number 10 to the south (listed separately), this house retains its original crowstepped gables and small, symmetrically disposed openings at the 1st floor. The wide gap between these windows and the eaves is typical of town houses in both Orkney and Shetland.
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