Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17828878

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)