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Latitude: 58.9778 / 58°58'40"N
Longitude: -2.9635 / 2°57'48"W
OS Eastings: 344705
OS Northings: 1010472
OS Grid: HY447104
Mapcode National: GBR M510.35B
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.GL0W
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HP+4H
Entry Name: Ancillary Building To 2-4 Wellington Street, Junction Road, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 2-4 (Even Numbers) Wellington Street, Including Ancillary Building and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381587
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36731
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381587
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Palace
18th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical building divided to form 2 dwellings, abutting Number 6 Wellington Street (listed separately) to right (W). Harled; cement rendered at rear. Cement window cills.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays arranged, 3-1. Deep-set, modern part-glazed door at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Identical arrangement in bay to left. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. Window at each floor in bay to outer right.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Window at ground in bay to left. Window at 1st floor in bay to right; gablehead stack above.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; harled, coped gablehead stacks to E and W; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
ANCILLARY BUILDING: single storey and attic, single bay, square-plan rubble garage (formerly cart shed and hay loft?) sited to rear (S) of main block. Modern garage door with boarded door flanking to S elevation; boarded hay loft door above. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews.
BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble walls with rubble cope to rectangular-plan garden to rear (S); boarded pedestrian gate to E.
An imposing asymmetrical building standing at the east end of Wellington Street.
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