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Latitude: 58.9781 / 58°58'41"N
Longitude: -2.9618 / 2°57'42"W
OS Eastings: 344807
OS Northings: 1010506
OS Grid: HY448105
Mapcode National: GBR M510.3YB
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GLVN
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HQ+77
Entry Name: West End Hotel, 14 Main Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 14 Main Street, the West End Hotel, Including Railings
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381576
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36725
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381576
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Hotel
1824 with later alterations and additions. 3-storey, 4-bay near-rectangular-plan, symmetrical crowstepped-gabled former house (now converted as hotel), with later cast-iron balcony over main entrance, with railings to terrace around base at ground. Harled. Painted plain margins to openings. Urn-finialled, fluted columnar supports to balcony with intersecting circles to balustrade.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone flight of steps to 2-leaf boarded doors at ground in bay offset to right of centre; window at each floor above. Small window at ground and 1st floor to right of main door; deep-set part-glazed door to right. Window at each floor in bay to outer right. Window at each floor in 2 bays to left of centre.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR; converted to hotel; upper floors not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: later cast-iron railings to ground-level terrace.
Built for William Richan of Rapness whose wife was reputed to have won a wager by putting a ?50 note in a sandwich in order to have eaten the most expensive breakfast. In 1845 it became the first Balfour Hospital, the funds for its conversion donated by John Balfour of Trenaby, Westray.
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