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Latitude: 58.9632 / 58°57'47"N
Longitude: -3.2979 / 3°17'52"W
OS Eastings: 325455
OS Northings: 1009168
OS Grid: HY254091
Mapcode National: GBR L571.60Y
Mapcode Global: WH69V.9ZV4
Plus Code: 9CCRXP72+7V
Entry Name: Registrar's Office, 20 Victoria Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 18 and 20 Victoria Street, the Eventide Club and Registrar's Office Respectively
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392325
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45440
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392325
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Office building
Early 20th century. Single storey 5-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical social club building with slightly advanced gabled bay to centre. Painted cement-rendered and lined. Moulded architraves to openings. Corbelled mouldings to beneath skews at angles.
N( PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window in bay to centre; clock to gable; truncated finial to gablehead above. Stone step to boarded door in each bay flanking. Window in each bay to outer left and right.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank gabled wall; gablehead stack above.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay gabled wall with window set to left; gableheads stack above.
Timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. Graded grey slate roof; decorative pierced red clay ridge; cement skews; coped cement-rendered and lined gablehead stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen fully, 1997.
B-group with Alexander Graham Fountain and the Harbour Office. Forms a stylistic pair with, although not identical to, the Harbour Office, opposite, (listed separately). Formerly (between 1900 and 1972) both a customs office and the Harbourmaster's office. The Alexander Graham Fountain stands in the square created between the two.
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