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Latitude: 58.9815 / 58°58'53"N
Longitude: -2.957 / 2°57'25"W
OS Eastings: 345085
OS Northings: 1010876
OS Grid: HY450108
Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.S4C
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KJ32
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JV+H5
Entry Name: Former Grammar School, School Place, Kirkwall
Listing Name: School Place, Orkney Islands Council Offices, Formerly Kirkwall Grammar School, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 15 July 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381680
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36809
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, School Place, Former Grammar School
ID on this website: 200381680
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: School building
T S Peace, circa 1890. Single storey and 2-storey irregular-plan school with internal courtyard playground, converted to offices (1980). Squared and snecked rubble sandstone with polished dressings. Contrasting long and short quoins and surrounds to openings; raised window margins.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-stage bell-tower; bracketed stepped cornice over ground floor; tripartite louvered openings to 1st stage; French pavilion roof with fishscale slates and decorative iron brattishing; gabled lucarnes to each face. Gabled single storey range adjoining to outer left. Single storey range adjoining tower to right and linking with gabled 2-storey range. M-gabled 2-storey window recessed to outer right.
NW ELEVATION: 7-bay single storey range; 3 central bays advanced and pedimented with oculus and corbelled fleche. Gabled 2-storey window recessed to outer left.
Replacement small-pane windows. Grey slate roof; flat lead roof to additions; corniced gablehead stack; block skewputts.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1993.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped boundary wall to School Place.
The Burgh School was founded by Bishop Reid in 1544. According to Groome, the present buildings on this site developed from a single storey H-plan school, built in 1820 by a Mr Gillespie. Thomas Smith Peace enlarged the building to their current scale in the 1890s. In 1980 the interior was remodelled and lead-roofed additions were made to the internal court, when the school was converted to offices for the Orkney Islands Council (Burger, p 26).
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