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Latitude: 58.9597 / 58°57'34"N
Longitude: -3.301 / 3°18'3"W
OS Eastings: 325267
OS Northings: 1008782
OS Grid: HY252087
Mapcode National: GBR L561.QKX
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.82B8
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+VJ
Entry Name: 2 Melvin Place, Stromness
Listing Name: 2 Melvin Place, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388160
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41802
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Stromness, 2 Melvin Place
ID on this website: 200388160
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Later 18th century with later alterations. 2-storey and attic single bay square-plan house, sited to centre of small square, with single storey lean-to bathroom extension to E. Harl-pointed rubble (harled addition).
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door, set to left, at ground; window at 1st floor above. Blank elevation of lean-to addition to left.
W ELEVATION: blank.
S ELEVATION: window, set to left, at ground; window at 1st floor above.
E ELEVATION: window at ground to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window, set to right, in lean-to addition to right.
12- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Old Orkney Grey slate roof; stone ridge; rooflight to E and W pitches; stone skews; rubble corniced multi-flue gablehead stack to S; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: architraved timber panelled doors; timber skirtings; spiral timber staircase with timber banisters, handrails and newel posts; painted cast-iron handrail to attic.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: rubble square-plan gatepiers with stepped rubble caps flanking timber gate sited in garden wall to S; low rubble wall sections flanking with painted wrought-iron railing sections; high rubble wall with rounded rubble cope enclosing rectangular-plan garden to SE; fluted cast-iron lamp standard within wall to SE angle.
Melvin Place is the birthplace of John Renton, 1848-78, whose adventures among the cannibal tribes of the Solomon Islands are recounted in Provost J G Marwick's book, The Adventures of John Renton.
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