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Latitude: 58.9593 / 58°57'33"N
Longitude: -3.3005 / 3°18'1"W
OS Eastings: 325293
OS Northings: 1008742
OS Grid: HY252087
Mapcode National: GBR L561.QSN
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.82KJ
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+PQ
Entry Name: 2 Alfred Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 2 Alfred Street, the Haven
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388205
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41835
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Stromness, 2 Alfred Street
ID on this website: 200388205
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Circa 1790 with later alterations and additions. 2 storey with attic 3-bay rectangular-plan, symmetrical house built on ground falling to E. Harled with painted cement margins to openings.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece at ground in bay to centre; deep-set replacement timber panelled door with geometric overdoor light; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right; finialled gablet dormer window above. Window at each floor in bay to left; box dormer above.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled wall. Window at each floor in each bay; extended tall gablehead stack above. Coped wall with boarded door set to left in wall connecting The Haven to 4 Alfred Street to right.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled wall. Coal-cellar door set to left at basement. Window in each bay at 1st floor. Small attic window to gable shoulders; gablehead stack above.
2- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Roof: replaced grey slate; stone ridge; stone skews; small roof light to centre; harled coped stacks; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods with regular cast-iron supports beneath gutter.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
The Haven was formerly the premises of the Orkney Hudson's Bay Company agents, David Geddes (1771-1812), George Geddes (1812-19) and John Rae (1818-36), father of Dr John Rae the Antarctic explorer. Lady Franklin lived here in 1851 during Dr Rae's search for the Franklin Expedition. It passed through several hands before its purchase by the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1937. It is now the home to the manager of the adjacent Lighthouse Depot, from which the mv Pole Star services the lighthouses of the North of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. The harling to the principal (S) elevation was in the process of being replaced, July 1997.
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