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Latitude: 58.9818 / 58°58'54"N
Longitude: -2.9608 / 2°57'38"W
OS Eastings: 344870
OS Northings: 1010918
OS Grid: HY448109
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.Y46
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HHBS
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JQ+PM
Entry Name: 17, 19, 21 Broad Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 17-21 (Odd Nos) Broad Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381520
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36676
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381520
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Townhouse
18th (?) century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay, rectangular-plan, crowstepped gabled former house built on corner site with St Magnus Lane with gabled end to Broad Street, incorporating flat-roofed, 2-storey, single bay block to right (E), forming 3-bay range. Harled with plain cement margins to openings.
E (PRINCIPAL, BROAD STREET) ELEVATION: modern, part-glazed door with large rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to centre; window at 1st floor above; non-aligned attic window (set to right of gable) above. Enlarged shop window at ground in each bay flanking; window at 1st floor above; gablehead stack to left.
Large shop windows at ground; 12-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; 2-pane timber sash and case attic window. Grey slate roof; large, flat-roofed box dormer to N pitch; harled, corniced, blocked gablehead stacks to E and W; tall, similar wallhead stack to S elevation; predominantly uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: converted to shop at ground; unseen at 1st floor, 1998.
Traditionally sited with its gabled end to the street, this crowstepped gabled building originally comprised 2 dwellings and is still divided, the ground floor of the west house being converted to a shop. Its southern elevation forms one side of St Magnus Lane. Features of interest to note include the unusually tall wallhead stack to the south and the intact crowstepped gables.
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