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Latitude: 58.9832 / 58°58'59"N
Longitude: -2.9595 / 2°57'34"W
OS Eastings: 344945
OS Northings: 1011064
OS Grid: HY449110
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.QZF
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HGXS
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MR+75
Entry Name: 41 Albert Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 41 Albert Street, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 9 December 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381633
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36781
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381633
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house with later, single storey lean-to addition at rear, forming L-plan; centred semi-octagonal stair tower to E with piended roof; canted S angle; built in close off Albert Street. Harled.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall stair window, set high, to central stair tower; modern part-glazed door at ground to left return; rectangular fanlight. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: window at each floor in bay to centre. Window, set close, in bay to right; non-aligned wallhead stack above. Window at 1st floor in bay to outer right. Lean-to projection, set at right angles, to outer left: 3, irregularly disposed windows to left; slightly advanced entrance with modern timber door to internal angle to right; window at 1st floor to main house above.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank; gablehead stack above.
Top-hung upper lights to modern windows. Traditional graded stone tiled roof; felt roof to addition at rear; asbestos tiles to piended stair tower; stone ridge; stone skews; tall, harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; similar wallhead stack to W; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen ,1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble walls with rubble cope enclosing rectangular-plan garden to rear (W).
Sited in a close off Albert Street, this building is distinguished by its full-height semi-octagonal stair tower, an unusual feature in Kirkwall. Features of interest include the traditional stone tiled roof and the tall, harled stacks.
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