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Latitude: 58.9761 / 58°58'33"N
Longitude: -2.9676 / 2°58'3"W
OS Eastings: 344469
OS Northings: 1010282
OS Grid: HY444102
Mapcode National: GBR M510.79F
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.DN37
Plus Code: 9CCVX2GJ+CX
Entry Name: 6 Nicolson Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 6 Nicolson Street, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381604
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36753
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 6 Nicolson Street
ID on this website: 200381604
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Later 18th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan plain symmetrical, crowstepped gabled house with ball-finialled gabled entrance porch to centre; lean-to projection to rear. Harled.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window to entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; modern part-glazed door in left return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
SE AND NW (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: lean-to projection spanning bays at ground.
12-pane timber sash and case windows; fixed timber-framed window to porch. Traditional graded Caithness stone tiled roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced stacks to SE and NW; polygonal cans; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low harled walls with ashlar cope from porch along front elevation.
This house is a particularly fine and intact survival of 18th century domestic architecture. It retains its small-pane glazing pattern, crowtepped gables and traditional Caithness stone roof, features that have become increasingly rare in Kirkwall.
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