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Latitude: 58.9812 / 58°58'52"N
Longitude: -2.9572 / 2°57'25"W
OS Eastings: 345076
OS Northings: 1010841
OS Grid: HY450108
Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.S1Y
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KJ19
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JV+F4
Entry Name: 5 School Place, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 5 School Place, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393126
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46015
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393126
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: House
Circa 1800 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical house with stepped screen wall to lean-to addition to left (S), and later flat-roofed entrance vestibule built on ground falling to N. Harled; cement-rendered and lined vestibule.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight to vestibule at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above. Window to each floor in each bay flanking. Boarded door set wide to left of screen wall to outer left.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: attic window to right of gabled elevation; gablehead stack above.
S (SIDE) ELELVATION: lean-to addition spanning bays at ground; attic window to right of gable; gablehead stack above.
4- and 8-pane timber sash and case windows. Traditional graded stone slated roof; corrugated-iron roof to lean-to; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead stacks; thack stanes; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low stepped harled walls with timber railings along E elevation; harled boundary walls enclosing rectangular-plan garden to rear (W).
A relatively intact example of an early 19th century town house which retains its stone slated roof. The distinctive wide gap between the 1st floor window and the eaves is typical of town houses in both Orkney and Shetland.
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