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Latitude: 58.9781 / 58°58'41"N
Longitude: -2.9625 / 2°57'44"W
OS Eastings: 344766
OS Northings: 1010500
OS Grid: HY447105
Mapcode National: GBR M510.3MG
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GLJP
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HQ+62
Entry Name: 25 Main Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 25 Main Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381583
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36729
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 25 Main Street
ID on this website: 200381583
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Cottage
18th century with later alterations. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, T-plan cottage with square-plan, flat-roofed porch to E and lean-to addition at rear (N); adjoins Number 23 (listed separately) to right (E). Harled.
S (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: deep-set, modern timber door in bay to right. Window in each bay to left.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: modern timber door to porch to internal angle to centre; window in left return. Window at ground with small attic window, set to right, to gabled bay to right; gablehead stack above. Window at each floor in bay to left. Deep-set modern timber door with window to right flanking to lean-to projection to outer left.
Replacement timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. Modern grey slate roof; corrugated-iron roof to lean-to; stone ridge; stone skews; harled, coped and corniced gablehead stacks uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
A cottage of early date and remaining relatively unchanged in layout. Main Street is the continuation of the old street which curved around the southern part of the Oyce and took roads out of Kirkwall to Scapa and the West Mainland.
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