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Latitude: 58.959 / 58°57'32"N
Longitude: -3.3022 / 3°18'7"W
OS Eastings: 325198
OS Northings: 1008705
OS Grid: HY251087
Mapcode National: GBR L561.Q1S
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.72SS
Plus Code: 9CCRXM5X+H4
Entry Name: The Whitehouse, Whitehouse Lane, Stromness
Listing Name: Whitehouse Lane, White House, Outbuildings to Rear
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392345
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45452
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392345
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Possibly circa 1680. Single storey and attic 3-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical crowstepped gabled outbuilding with forestair to N, with further rectangular-plan shed/store set close to W, to rear (W) of re-built Whitehouse. Harl-pointed rubble.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: doorway offset to left of centre; window to outer left. Window to right of centre.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: stone forestair with extended wall projecting E, to boarded door, offset to left of gable; gablehead stack above.
6-pane timber sash and case windows. Corrugated-iron roof; stone ridge; rubble corniced gablehead stacks to N and S, stack to S extended.
Rectangular-plan pitched harl-pointed rubble store to W; Purple Welsh slates to roof; stone ridge.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.
The Whitehouse, the replacement to which stands directly to the E of these buildings, was built in 1680 and was so called because it was the first house in Stromness to be constructed with lime mortar instead of clay. Captain Bligh dined in the house with the Stewarts of Massetter when Captain Cook's ships called into Stromness in 1780. George Stewart served on the Bounty during the 1789 mutiny and provided the model for Byron's 'Torquil'.
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