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Latitude: 58.958 / 58°57'28"N
Longitude: -3.3012 / 3°18'4"W
OS Eastings: 325249
OS Northings: 1008594
OS Grid: HY252085
Mapcode National: GBR L561.Y6J
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.837K
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+5G
Entry Name: 42 Alfred Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 42 Alfred Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392207
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45343
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392207
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid to later 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical town house with gable end to street, forming one side of alley to slipway, built on ground rising slightly to S. Harled with plain painted cement margins to openings.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern timber panelled door at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking.
W (STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled wall. Window set low in each bay at ground. Window at 1st floor with window in gable shoulder above in bay to right. Gablehead stack above.
E ELEVATION: window at each floor in bay to right. Number 40 Alfred Street abutting wall in bay to left.
Modern tilt opening 4-pane timber windows. Grey slate; coped harled stacks to gableheads; plain cans; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
Of note here is the relatively large gap between 1st floor windows and eaves, providing space for smaller attic accommodation without the use of dormers. Possibly used by servants, the presence of this accommodation indicates that the building was probably intended to house a merchant family of some note. Variants of this kind of building are often found outwith towns in the Northern Isles, and were built by merchant land owners. Shares common slipway and yard with numbers 38-40 Alfred Street, (see separate list description).
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