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Latitude: 58.9761 / 58°58'34"N
Longitude: -2.9538 / 2°57'13"W
OS Eastings: 345265
OS Northings: 1010275
OS Grid: HY452102
Mapcode National: GBR M520.7M8
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.LNN6
Plus Code: 9CCVX2GW+CF
Entry Name: Madras Villa, Bignold Park Road, Kirkwall
Listing Name: Bignold Park Road, Mandras Villa, Including Boundary Walls and Piers
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393082
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45976
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393082
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical, T-plan house with flat-roofed, mutule-corniced entrance porch. Harled.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window in entrance porch; part-glazed door with letterbox fanlight in right return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay remaining.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: window, set to right, at 1st floor; gablehead stack above. Blank single storey projection (forming T-plan) to outer right.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple Welsh slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; harled, corniced gablehead stacks to N and S; tall, harled, corniced gablehead stack to E (rear); ridged cylindrical cans; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS: low rendered walls with ridged cement cope; replacement wrought-iron railings; square-plan pier with pyramidal caps to angles.
Built on the southern rise out of Kirkwall, this house retains its originality of form, the rear elevation facing Bignold Park. Despite not being evident on the 1st edition OS map the 1st floor windows, set close under the eaves, and the plain symmetrical main elevation, indicate an early date.
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