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Latitude: 58.962 / 58°57'43"N
Longitude: -3.2991 / 3°17'56"W
OS Eastings: 325380
OS Northings: 1009041
OS Grid: HY253090
Mapcode National: GBR L561.KFK
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.907G
Plus Code: 9CCRXP62+R9
Entry Name: 102 Victoria Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 102 Victoria Street, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388152
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41797
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Stromness, 102 Victoria Street
ID on this website: 200388152
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Late 18th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan plain symmetrical house. Pointed roughly coursed rubble with cement margins to openings.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved, deep-set, part-glazed modern timber panelled door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. 3, evenly disposed, rooflights above.
Replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Modern asbestos tiles to roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low cement-rendered and lined walls with ashlar copes bordering road to W; square-pan coped gatepiers to centre and to each extreme; fleur-de-lys-headed cast-iron railings.
Here, Sir Walter Scott heard the story of the pirate Gow who lived for a while in Stromness at the White House. Captain Cleveland in The Pirate was based on Gow.
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