North Church Manse, Back Road, Stromness, Stromness, Orkney Islands

Entry Name: North Church Manse, Back Road, Stromness

Listing Name: Back Road, Old North Manse, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates

Listing Date: 24 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392215

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45347

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392215

Location: Stromness

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Stromness

Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles

Traditional County: Orkney

Tagged with: Manse

Description

Dated 1865 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical T-plan gothic-detailed former manse with steeply gabled advanced central bay and single storey pitch-roofed wing extending N at rear. Re-pointed stugged and snecked sandstone ashlar with polished and droved sandstone dressings. String course between ground and 1st floors continuous as stepped hood moulds, corbelled over door; stepped round-arched hood mould over central 1st floor window. Chamfered reveals to long and short margins to openings; long and short quoins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: roll-moulded architraved doorpiece with armorial panel below hoodmould at ground in advanced bay to centre; window at 1st floor; point-arched gablehead window above; decorative octagonal gablehead stack. Tripartite at ground with bipartite at 1st floor above in bays flanking.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay advanced gabled wall with single storey 3-bay block to left. 2-bay block: stair window to centre; gablehead window above. Window at each floor in bay to left. 3-bay block: blocked window to centre. Window in bay to left. Modern uPVC door in bay to right.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at each floor in each bay with small gablehead window and gablehead stack in 2-bay block to right. Bipartite at ground with single window at 1st floor in recessed bay to outer left.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: small window set to right at each floor in gabled bay to left; gablehead stack above. pitched projection with lean-to addition to E from blank wall to recessed bay to right.

Predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows with fixed stair window at rear. Grey slate; stone ridge; stone skews; harled coped gablehead stacks; decorative octagonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: random rubble walls with rubble cope enclosing garden sloping down to E; coped square-plan rubble gatepiers sited to S with replacement wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Formerly the manse to the North Kirk, now Stromness Town Hall on Church Street, which was originally built in 1844, then completely rebuilt in 1892, (see separate list description).

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