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Latitude: 58.9776 / 58°58'39"N
Longitude: -2.9652 / 2°57'54"W
OS Eastings: 344612
OS Northings: 1010447
OS Grid: HY446104
Mapcode National: GBR M510.2F4
Mapcode Global: WH7C4.FM72
Plus Code: 9CCVX2HM+2W
Entry Name: 26 Wellington Street, Kirkwall
Listing Name: 26 Wellington Street
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381593
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36736
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381593
Location: Kirkwall
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Kirkwall
Electoral Ward: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Cottage
18th century with later alterations and additions. Single storey and attic, 4-bay asymmetrical rectangular-plan house with crowstepped gable to street and pitched-roofed dormers, built on ground rising slightly to S. Harled.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flat-roofed part-glazed entrance porch at ground in bay to right of centre; modern door in left return; dormer window above. Window at ground in bay to outer right. Part-glazed door at ground in bay to left of centre. Window at each floor in bay to outer left.
N (WELLINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay: window at each floor in bay to left. Window at ground in bay to right; gablehead stack above.
E AND S ELEVATIONS: blank.
Replacement uPVC windows; rooflights to E pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; harled, corniced stack to N; similar cement rendered stack to S; uPVC rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
Much altered at the ground floor, the house is of interest for its traditional scale and orientation of the gable to the street, and Orcadian details such as the deep-set openings, broad chimney stacks and crowstepped gables.
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