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Latitude: 58.9761 / 58°58'33"N
Longitude: -2.968 / 2°58'4"W
OS Eastings: 344445
OS Northings: 1010280
OS Grid: HY444102
Mapcode National: GBR M510.72V
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.CNW7
Plus Code: 9CCVX2GJ+CQ
Entry Name: 1 Nicolson Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 1 Nicolson Street, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393118
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46007
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393118
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Earlier 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan plain symmetrical house with flat-roofed addition to rear. Harled. Plain cement margins to openings.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber panelled door with letterbox fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in each bay flanking.
SE AND NW (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank with gablehead stacks.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low, harled wall with cement copes; square-plan low piers to centre.
Plain and symmetrical, this house is a good and relatively unchanged example of an early part 19th century merchant's house. It retains its timber-framed glazing pattern from later in the 19th century.
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