Description

18th century with later alterations. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, T-plan cottage with square-plan, flat-roofed porch to E and lean-to addition at rear (N); adjoins Number 23 (listed separately) to right (E). Harled.

S (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: deep-set, modern timber door in bay to right. Window in each bay to left.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: modern timber door to porch to internal angle to centre; window in left return. Window at ground with small attic window, set to right, to gabled bay to right; gablehead stack above. Window at each floor in bay to left. Deep-set modern timber door with window to right flanking to lean-to projection to outer left.

Replacement timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. Modern grey slate roof; corrugated-iron roof to lean-to; stone ridge; stone skews; harled, coped and corniced gablehead stacks uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

Statement of Interest

A cottage of early date and remaining relatively unchanged in layout. Main Street is the continuation of the old street which curved around the southern part of the Oyce and took roads out of Kirkwall to Scapa and the West Mainland.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827460

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)