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12 Queen Street, Kirkwall

A Category B Listed Building in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.9833 / 58°58'59"N

Longitude: -2.9563 / 2°57'22"W

OS Eastings: 345130

OS Northings: 1011080

OS Grid: HY451110

Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.LFX

Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KGGN

Plus Code: 9CCVX2MV+8F

Entry Name: 12 Queen Street, Kirkwall

Listing Name: 12 and 14 Queen Street, Including Boundary Walls and Railings

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 381622

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36770

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kirkwall, 12 Queen Street

ID on this website: 200381622

Location: Kirkwall

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Kirkwall

Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East

Traditional County: Orkney

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Description

Circa 1840 with later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay, asymmetrical plain L-plan pair of houses forming small terrace. Eaves course. Painted cement-rendered and lined; harled at rear. Painted margins to openings. Strip quoins.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 2-3. 3-bay group to right, (Number 14): pilastered and corniced doorpiece at ground in bay to centre; deep-set timber panelled door with large fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right. Bipartite window at ground in bay to left; single window at 1st floor above. 2-bay group to left, (Number 12): deep-set, part-glazed architraved door at ground in bay to right. Window at each floor in bay to left.

SW (SIDE, NUMBER 14) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled block to left window at ground and 1st floors to left; attic window to right; gablehead stack above. 3-bay block set back to right: modern door with light flanking in bay to left; window at 1st floor above. Window at ground in each bay remaining.

4-pane timber sash and case windows; evenly disposed rooflights toNW pitch. Concrete tiled roof; cement-rendered and lined, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks; uPVC and cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low painted, cement-rendered and lined wall along NW elevation; ridged stone cope; decorative, cast-iron spear-headed railings with 2 similar pedestrian gates.

Statement of Interest

A small terrace of two dwellings possibly a single house extended. Number 14 has a good-quality doorpiece and the pair retains fine, intact railings.

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