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Latitude: 58.9647 / 58°57'52"N
Longitude: -3.2991 / 3°17'56"W
OS Eastings: 325385
OS Northings: 1009340
OS Grid: HY253093
Mapcode National: GBR L561.CFF
Mapcode Global: WH69V.9X7Y
Plus Code: 9CCRXP72+V8
Entry Name: 1 Franklin Road, Stromness
Listing Name: 1 Franklin Road, Including Boundary Wall with Entrance, and Outbuilding
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392232
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45364
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392232
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Late 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan symmetrical house with 3-light canted windows at ground to advanced gabled bays flanking (later) classical entrance porch, built on raised terrace. Squared and snecked rubble with cement-rendered dressings. Base course; cornice and blocking course to canted windows; hood moulds to 1st floor windows; plain timber bargeboards with timber apex pendants; overhanging eaves; decorative wrought-iron gable finials; long and short quoins. Pitch-roofed cement-rendered and lined, rectangular-plan shed to N.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: low coped wall with short pyramidal-capped pier terminals flanking stone flight to central door. Banded pilasters supporting shallow pediment over timber panelled door and fanlight to advanced porch at ground in bay to centre; gabled window breaking eaves at 1st floor above. Canted window at ground with bipartite at 1st floor above in each advanced bay flanking.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay, M-gabled elevation. Single storey, flat-roofed porch in bay to centre with stair light flanking to left. Window at 1st floor in bay to right. Advanced pitched single storey wing projecting from bay to left.
2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate; slate to outbuilding; asbestos covering to flat-roofed porch at rear; stone ridge; corniced rubble ridge stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with some uPVC replacements.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND ENTRANCE: rubble boundary wall with cement-rendered and lined corniced square-plan piers flanking pedimented timber panelled door sited to E.
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