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Latitude: 58.978 / 58°58'40"N
Longitude: -2.9639 / 2°57'50"W
OS Eastings: 344685
OS Northings: 1010496
OS Grid: HY446104
Mapcode National: GBR M510.2ZG
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.FLVQ
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HP+6C
Entry Name: 3 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 3 Wellington Street, Including Ancillary Building and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 9 December 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381584
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36730
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381584
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, 5-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical house with gable end to street; single storey, lean-to rectangular-plan ancillary building sited to W of main house. Harled; harl-pointed rubble ancillary building. 1st floor windows set close under eaves.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep-set part-glazed modern door at ground in bay to left of centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. Window at each floor in bay to right of centre. Deep-set part-glazed, modern door at ground in bay to penultimate right. Window at 1st floor in bay to outer right.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay: window at 1st floor in bay to right; gablehead stack above.
S (WELLINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 2-bay: window at each floor in each bay; gablehead stack above.
Replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows; rooflights to W pitch. Modern tiled roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
ANCILLARY BUILDING: centred part-glazed boarded door to N elevation; blank S (roadside) elevation; corrugated-iron roof.
BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble walls enclosing rectangular-plan garden to N of house; boarded pedestrian gate to W of S elevation.
Traditionally oriented with its gabled end to the road, this house stands at the E end of Wellingtons Street. It is unusual in that it stands on the south, rather that the north side of the street, the latter having been developed in the 18th century, taking Kirkwall much further west.
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