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Latitude: 58.9844 / 58°59'3"N
Longitude: -2.9601 / 2°57'36"W
OS Eastings: 344911
OS Northings: 1011199
OS Grid: HY449111
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.QP3
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HFMV
Plus Code: 9CCVX2MQ+PW
Entry Name: Orkney Wireless Museum, 1 Junction Road, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 1 Junction Road, the Orkney Wireless Museum
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393113
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46002
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393113
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1866 with later addition. Single storey, 3-bay, T-plan symmetrical piended-roofed museum, with advanced, pedimented entrance projection and tall stacks. Squared and coursed rubble with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings; roughly coursed rubble to sides and rear. Base course; corniced eaves course. Long and short margins to openings; long and short quoins.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window in advanced entrance projection to centre; date panel to block-finialled pediment above; modern timber door to eight return. Window in each bay flanking. Modern, part-glazed door with window to left in flat-roofed addition to outer left.
Fixed 6-pane, timber-framed window to centre; 12-pane timber sash and case windows flanking; aluminium-framed window to addition. Purple slate roof; red clay ridges; stone skews to pediment; tall, dressed and corniced wallhead stacks to N and S; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
Junction Road was constructed in 1865 along with Castle Street in order to open up the approach to the harbour; the present Orkney Wireless Museum was one of the first buildings to go up. Set back from the road, this small, symmetrical building remains little changed and bears a close resemblance to the harbour master's office in Stromness. This building's proximity to the harbour suggests a possible original use as such. The Orkney Wireless Museum, originally based in St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, was later moved to this site. Features of interest include the tall, broadly corniced stacks, the pedimented central bay and the corniced eaves course.
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