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Latitude: 58.9629 / 58°57'46"N
Longitude: -3.2993 / 3°17'57"W
OS Eastings: 325373
OS Northings: 1009133
OS Grid: HY253091
Mapcode National: GBR L561.KBZ
Mapcode Global: WH69V.9Z5C
Plus Code: 9CCRXP72+47
Entry Name: 49-51 Victoria Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 49 and 51 Victoria Street, Including Walled Garden
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392313
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45430
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392313
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House Walled garden
Earlier to mid 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey rectangular-plan pair of houses comprising asymmetrical 2-bay gable-ended house to left (W) adjoining symmetrical 3-bay house to right built on ground rising to W; Youth Hostel (Nos 45 and 47) adjoining to right (E), not listed. Pointed random rubble with cement-rendered and lined margins to openings. 1st floor windows set close under eaves.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: No 51: modern part-glazed door with large rectangular fanlight and small window flanking to right at ground to right. Window at each floor to left. No 49: modern part-glazed door with large rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank gabled bay with gablehead stack.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Old Orkney grey slate roof; stone ridge; concrete skews; corniced rubble gablehead and ridge stacks; thackstanes; uPVC and cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997; properties lying empty.
WALLED GARDEN: rubble walls around long rectangular-plan garden on rising ground at rear (W).
No 51 is recorded as having been a Grocer's, a Stationer's and a Tobacconist's since 1900, while number 49 was a Draper's before becoming Dr Duncan's surgery.
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