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Latitude: 58.9576 / 58°57'27"N
Longitude: -3.3007 / 3°18'2"W
OS Eastings: 325279
OS Northings: 1008547
OS Grid: HY252085
Mapcode National: GBR L561.YHR
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.83HW
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+2P
Entry Name: Quay With Hand Crane, South End, Stromness
Listing Name: 2 South End, Including Quay
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392302
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45420
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392302
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical house with 4-bay pitch-roofed timber former boat-building shed projection to E. Re-pointed roughly coursed and squared rubble.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber panelled door with fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking. Window in each bay to boat shed to outer right.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: full-height gabled bay to centre; window at each floor. Windows at ground and 1st floors in each bay flanking. Window in each bay to boat shed to outer left.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay gabled elevation. Window at each floor to left; gablehead stack above.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: sliding door to centre; 3 lights (tall light to centre) to gablehead; window, set to right at 1st floor and attic; gablehead stack above.
4-pane timber sash and case windows; fixed 4-pane timber-framed windows to boat shed. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; slate to dormer; corrugated perspex to boat shed; replaced cconcrete skews; corniced rubble gablehead stacks to E and W; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
QUAY: Caithness flagstones to rectangular-plan quay to E with low coped rubble wall to E border; concrete slight to transverse laid rubble slipway to SE angle; operational cast-iron boat derrick to SE angle.
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