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Latitude: 58.9811 / 58°58'51"N
Longitude: -2.9567 / 2°57'24"W
OS Eastings: 345105
OS Northings: 1010829
OS Grid: HY451108
Mapcode National: GBR M42Z.SC0
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.KJ8D
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JV+C8
Entry Name: 10 School Place, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 10 School Place
Listing Date: 15 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393130
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46019
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393130
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Cottage
Late 18th to early 19th century with later alterations. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical crowstep-gabled cottage sited to S end of small terrace, built on ground rising to S. Halred.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern, part-glazed door with letterbox fanlight in bay to centre. Window in each bay flanking.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank; gablehead stack above.
N ELEVATION: adjoining Number 8 (listed separately).
uPVC windows with top-hung upper lights. Grey tiled roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced gablehead and mutual ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
B-Group with 6, 8 and 12 School Place. This row of cottages stands on the site of Kirkwall's Grammar School which probably began as the Cathedral Sang School attended by choristers. The site seems to compete with Number 36 Broad Street (listed separately) for the accolade of Kirkwall's original Grammar School, both seeing service as such at one time or another. The first recorded schoolmaster was Thomas Houston who was appointed by Bishop Reid to hold office from 1544 to 1595. Another school (dated around 1820) has been described, designed by a Mr Gillespie and comprising a low pavilion and an arched doorway. It was finally replaced by the present T S Peace building (listed separately) which has been since converted to Orkney Islands Council offices (1980). The value of this row of cottages to the streetscape of School Place is enhanced by its juxtaposition with the T S Peace building to the north and the massive East Church to the south.
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