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Latitude: 58.9805 / 58°58'49"N
Longitude: -2.9614 / 2°57'41"W
OS Eastings: 344831
OS Northings: 1010774
OS Grid: HY448107
Mapcode National: GBR M41Z.XTG
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.HJ0S
Plus Code: 9CCVX2JQ+6C
Entry Name: 23 Victoria Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 19-23 (Odd Numbers) Victoria Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381536
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36688
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkwall, 23 Victoria Street
ID on this website: 200381536
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall East
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1810 with later alterations, (see Notes). 2-storey and attic, 5-bay rectangular-plan, asymmetrical house with long elevation to street; shop at ground to left. Harled with ashlar dressings. Plain margins to windows; architraved doorways.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stop-chamfered and shouldered doorpiece with cast date, initials '17 RMK MM 43' and central heart motif; part-glazed timber panelled door; window at 1st floor above. Architraved doorway with date and initials, 'WC 1855 MB' at ground in bay to left of centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. 3 evenly disposed window at ground in 3 bays to right of centre; 2 evenly disposed window at 1st floor above.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay: window at ground in bay to left; non-aligned window at 1st floor; attic window above. Attic window in bay to right; gablehead stack above.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, grouped 1-2. 2-bay gabled block to right: enlarged shop window at ground in bay to right; window at 1st floor; attic window; gablehead stack above; window at 1st floor to left. Window at 1st floor in bay to left.
12-pane timber sash and case windows with top-hung upper lights. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; decorative rope-scrolled skewputts; thack-stanes; harled, corniced and coped gablehead and ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: converted as modern shop at ground to left (S); unseen elsewhere, 1998.
The marriage lintel dated 1743 has been incorporated here from an earlier house on this site; the initials stand for Robert Mackay and Margaret Mowat. A further, similar, lintel is dated over 100 years later, although the identityof these owners is unknown. The elaborate scrolled skewputts are of particular interest.
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