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Latitude: 58.9825 / 58°58'56"N
Longitude: -2.9594 / 2°57'33"W
OS Eastings: 344951
OS Northings: 1010987
OS Grid: HY449109
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.YW4
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HHZ9
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JR+X6
Entry Name: Bank Of Scotland, 56 Albert Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 56 Albert Street, Bank of Scotland
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393071
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45970
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393071
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Bank building
Later 19th century. 3-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan Italianate bank building with 3, evenly disposed shell-headed niches to 3rd floor. Polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; random rubble to sides. Base course; cill course to ground floor; cornice course to 3rd floor; coped blocking course with consoled dies over shell niches; terminal dies to angles. Lugged architraves to ground and 1st floor windows; plain architraves to 3rd floor windows; consoled cornices to entrances; bracketed cills to 1st floor windows. Quoins.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with large rectangular fanlight to doorways to outer left and right at ground; window in each bay remaining between. Window in each bay at 2nd floor. Alternate window and niche at 3rd floor.
SW AND NE (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: irregularly fenestrated; wallhead stack to SW elevation.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Roof material unseen; corniced wallhead stack to SW; polygonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: unseen, 1998.
Built in the style of a mini-palazzo, this building shows a debt to David Rhind, who designed the former Commercial Bank at the other end of Albert Street (see separate list description).
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