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Latitude: 58.959 / 58°57'32"N
Longitude: -3.3011 / 3°18'3"W
OS Eastings: 325262
OS Northings: 1008703
OS Grid: HY252087
Mapcode National: GBR L561.QK5
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.82BS
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+HH
Entry Name: 17 Alfred Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 15 and 17 Alfred Street Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392191
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45330
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392191
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Mid 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey 5-bay rectangular-plan near-symmetrical pair of houses standing on W side of small square. Re-pointed roughly coursed rubble with cement dressings. Plain margins to windows; round-arched doorways.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 3-2. 3-bay group to left: Tuscan pilasters on square bases with round-arched hood door at ground in bay to centre; deep-set modern part-glazed timber door with fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking. 2-bay group to right: plain round-arched doorway with modern part-glazed door and fanlight in bay to left; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to right.
Modern 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; concrete skews; coped re-pointed rubble ridge stack and to N end; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan concrete ashlar piers in front of main (left) doorway; flat cope and shallow pyramidal cap. Concrete boundary walls with ridged cope and cast-iron railings.
The demolition of a dwelling house immediately in front of this building in the late 19th century as a concession to increasing traffic, has created a small open square here. The relative grandeur of the door surround has increased the building's stature in the street. Gifford suggests that the coursed rubble is reminiscent of London stock brick, lending them an English Regency feel.
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