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Latitude: 58.983 / 58°58'58"N
Longitude: -2.9589 / 2°57'31"W
OS Eastings: 344983
OS Northings: 1011041
OS Grid: HY449110
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.R9P
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.JG7Y
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MR+5F
Entry Name: 34 Albert Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 34 Albert Street
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393070
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45969
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 34 Albert Street
ID on this website: 200393070
Late 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan shop tenement with gothic details. Polished sandstone ashlar at ground; squared rubble with polished and tooled sandstone ashlar dressings at 1st floor; random rubble to sides. Aproned base course; cornice course between floors; wrought-iron window box holders to outer 1st floor windows; corniced eaves course. Roll- moulded openings windows at ground; pointed arched windows flanking round-arched doorway at ground; segmental-arched windows with stop-chamfered reveals and long and short margins at 1st floor.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: trefoil-finialled gabled entrance with acanthus leaf consoles over doorway and flanking nook shafts; inscription, 'SE DEUS NOBISCUM' to gablehead; modern wrought-iron 2-leaf guards over 2-leaf timber panelled doors; window at 1st floor above. Large shop window at ground with window at 1st floor above in bays flanking.
Modern shop windows at ground; 2-pane timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; bracketed and gabletted skewputts; corniced rubble gablehead stacks to N and S; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative downpipe brackets.
INTERIOR: modern shop at ground; unseen above, 1998.
Notably different in style from its neighbours, its gothic details are of interest in the streetscape. The inscription to the gablehead is the burgh motto.
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