Latitude: 58.9843 / 58°59'3"N
Longitude: -2.9538 / 2°57'13"W
OS Eastings: 345273
OS Northings: 1011191
OS Grid: HY452111
Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.MKV
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.LFMW
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MW+PF
Entry Name: 18 East Road, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 18 East Road, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 9 December 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381669
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36802
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 18 East Road
ID on this website: 200381669
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Earlier 19th century. 2-storey pair of 2, 3-bay near-symmetrical, rectangular-plan houses forming single, piended roofed block, orientated N-S with side elevation to street (S); Caithness-flagstoned close along W elevation; castellated entrance arch to main (W) elevations; single-storey, square-plan entrance porch to S property. Harled. Deep-set openings.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: NORTH HOUSE: 2-leaf, part-glazed boarded doors at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. SOUTH HOUSE: window in entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; modern timber-panelled door in right return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
S (EAST ROAD) ELEVATION: tall, extended central wallhead stack; window at each floor offset to outer right.
N (GARDEN) ELEVATION: tall, extended, central wallhead stack; window at each floor, offset to outer right; boarded door with window flanking lean-to addition to outer left.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Traditional graded stone tiled roof, (S piend with replacement grey slates); stone ridge; harled, corniced, extended wallhead and ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS; low rubble wall to S; higher rubble wall marking property division to W; rubble walls enclosing rectangular-plan garden to rear (N).
An intact pair of houses, with unusual piended roofs. The stacks are notably large and have been extended further. The retention of a near-complete traditionally stone slated roof and a traditinal Caithness-flagged walkway along the entrance elevations is of further interest.
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