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Latitude: 58.9836 / 58°59'1"N
Longitude: -2.9576 / 2°57'27"W
OS Eastings: 345055
OS Northings: 1011114
OS Grid: HY450111
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.RVY
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.JGTF
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MR+FX
Entry Name: 6 Albert Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 6 Albert Street, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393068
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45967
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393068
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Earlier to mid 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan house. Modern harl. 1st floor windows set close under eaves.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern, part-glazed door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; narrow window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window set to right at 1st floor; gablehead stack above.
4-pane timber sash and case windows; 2, evenly disposed 2-pane rooflights to S pitch. Purple Welsh slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to E and W; ridged cylindrical cans; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: render over rubble wall with ridged ashalr cope to S; dry-point rubble wall to W of house.
A small open court know as Parliament Close stood to the south in the open angle between Bridge Street and Albert Street. It was here that Orkney's own parliament administered early Scandinavian law until well into the 17th century. Recently harled, the building retains its originality of form and symmetrically arranged glazing pattern.
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